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Sweet chestnut
Knutsford, Cheshire East
Recorded by: Not specified
- Species:
- Sweet chestnutCastanea sativa
- Form:
- Maiden
- Standing or fallen:
- Standing
- Living status:
- Alive
- Girth:
- 6.71m at a height of 1.50m
- Veteran status:
- Veteran tree
- County:
- Cheshire East
- Country:
- England
- Grid reference:
- SJ7429880968
- Public accessibility:
- Public - restricted access (e.g. National Trust property)
- Surroundings:
- Parkland, Woodland, Historic park and garden
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Sweet chestnut
Knutsford, Cheshire East
Recorded by: Not specified
- Species:
- Sweet chestnut
- Form:
- Maiden
- Standing or fallen:
- Standing
- Living status:
- Alive
- Girth:
- 6.71m at a height of 1.50m
- Condition:
- Holes or water pockets, Hollowing branches, Decaying wood on the ground
- Veteran status:
- Veteran tree
- Tree number:
- 175703
- Local or historic name:
- --
- Tag number:
- County:
- Cheshire East
- Country:
- England
- Grid reference:
- SJ7429880968
- Public accessibility:
- Public - restricted access (e.g. National Trust property)
- Surroundings:
- Parkland, Woodland, Historic park and garden
- Ancient tree site:
- --
- Woodland Trust wood:
- No
- Epiphytes:
- Lichen, Moss
- Fungi:
- --
- Invertebrates:
- --
- Bats:
- --
- Recorded by:
- Not specified
- Recording organisation:
- --
- Last visited:
- 29/04/2008
- First recorded:
- 29/04/2008
This is a truly gigantic tree – both in girth and towering height. I’ve always thought of it as the most impressive tree in Tatton Park: not irresistibly huggable like the sweet chestnut at SJ74688088, nor as heroic-looking as the sweet chestnut at SJ74798053, and it lacks the elegance of the towering beech at SJ75157941, and its conventional-looking bark certainly doesn’t fascinate the eye at close quarters with jewel-like encrustations like the gnarled sweet chestnut at SJ74808051, but for sheer dominating size it tops the bill.