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The lightning tree
Chelmsford, Essex
Recorded by: Helen Leaf
- Species:
- Pedunculate oakQuercus robur
- Form:
- Pollard lapsed
- Standing or fallen:
- Standing
- Living status:
- Alive
- Girth:
- 3.77m at a height of 1.60m
- Veteran status:
- Veteran tree
- County:
- Essex
- Country:
- England
- Grid reference:
- TQ7822499904
- Public accessibility:
- Public - restricted access (e.g. National Trust property)
- Surroundings:
- Landscape garden, Field
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The lightning tree
Chelmsford, Essex
Recorded by: Helen Leaf
- Species:
- Pedunculate oak
- Form:
- Pollard lapsed
- Standing or fallen:
- Standing
- Living status:
- Alive
- Girth:
- 3.77m at a height of 1.60m
- Condition:
- Holes or water pockets, Hollowing trunk, Hollowing branches, Decaying wood in the crown, Decaying wood on the ground
- Veteran status:
- Veteran tree
- Tree number:
- 195633
- Local or historic name:
- The lightning tree
- County:
- Essex
- Country:
- England
- Grid reference:
- TQ7822499904
- Public accessibility:
- Public - restricted access (e.g. National Trust property)
- Surroundings:
- Landscape garden, Field
- Ancient tree site:
- --
- Woodland Trust wood:
- No
- Epiphytes:
- Lichen
- Fungi:
- --
- Invertebrates:
- Yes
- Bats:
- --
- Recorded by:
- Helen Leaf
- Recording organisation:
- --
- Last visited:
- 16/06/2025
- First recorded:
- 31/08/2019
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