Trees Company ; David Hirst Goes On a Root and Branch Tour of Britain to Track Down the Nations Most Celebrated Trunks
Mail on Sunday › January 13, 2008
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TREES form a critical part of our green and pleasant landscape. Indeed, one tenth of the British Isles is cloaked by their sheltering branches. And among those millions of trees, some are famous in their own right. Travel Mail on Sunday takes a tour of the countrys most celebrated trees.
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Trees Company ; David Hirst Goes On a Root and Branch Tour of Britain to Track Down the Nations Most Celebrated Trunks
A GNARLY yet dignified oak that is at least 750 years old and, with Hampton Court Palace as a backdrop, one of the noblest trees in the land. It would have already stood for a few hundred years when Cardinal Wolsey started to create the palace and enclose the 750 acres around it as a hunting ground.
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