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Beech
Amesbury, Wilts
Recorded by: carl talbot
- Species:
- Beech
- Form:
- Pollard form (natural)
- Standing or fallen:
- Standing
- Living status:
- Alive
- Girth:
- 7.10m at a height of 1.50m History
- Veteran status:
- Ancient tree
- County:
- Wilts
- Country:
- England
- Grid reference:
- SU1345742433
- Public accessibility:
- Public - open access (e.g. public park)
- Surroundings:
- Bridlepath / footpath, Field
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Beech
Amesbury, Wilts
Recorded by: carl talbot
- Species:
- Beech
- Form:
- Pollard form (natural)
- Standing or fallen:
- Standing
- Living status:
- Alive
- Girth:
- 7.10m at a height of 1.50m History
- Condition:
- Holes or water pockets, Hollowing branches, Decaying wood in the crown
- Veteran status:
- Ancient tree
- Tree number:
- 155953
- Local or historic name:
- --
- County:
- Wilts
- Country:
- England
- Grid reference:
- SU1345742433
- Public accessibility:
- Public - open access (e.g. public park)
- Surroundings:
- Bridlepath / footpath, Field
- Ancient tree site:
- --
- Woodland Trust wood:
- No
- Epiphytes:
- Lichen, Moss, Ivy
- Fungi:
- --
- Invertebrates:
- Yes
- Bats:
- --
- Recorded by:
- carl talbot
- Recording organisation:
- --
- Last visited:
- 22/09/2022
- First recorded:
- 18/09/2016
This tree was measured in 2016 as having a girth of 6.25m@1.5m. I measured it in 2022, when it does not seem to have changed at all, at 7.1m@1.5m. This was measuring across the gap left by the old tear-out. If you measure right around the true circumference of the tree, the girth is over 10m. This tree, having been growing on an exposed ridge on top of a chalk hill with very thin soils (and these conditions have not changed for hundreds of years) is a Category B tree growing in poor conditions: so we would expect any measurement over 5m@1.5m to be considered ancient.