Public - partial access (e.g. next to footpath or road)
Surroundings:
Field
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I think this incredible tree is in fact Q. x rosacea.
Thank you Stuart - agree it is a hybrid, but very close to being Q petrea. What a marvellous tree!
According to the given OS grid reference this oak stands in the parish of St. Margarets, not in Michaelcurch Eskley. It is in a field near Shobdon Barn, well outside the nearby wood. Unfortunately I have not found a meaningful historical context for this land to place it in one of the categories used in my book Ancient Oaks in the English Landscape (MDP, TDP, RF, CHA, COM, manor).
Very interesting. The field in which it sits looks like pasture carved from the adjacent AW (much as the area 700m to the E was a decade or two ago). Isn't it most likely the tree is a relic of former common wood pasture, which was spared the axe for some reason? Wouldn't a deer park or chase be unlikely in this area which may have been part of Wales for parts of the medieval period?
I think this incredible tree is in fact Q. x rosacea.
Thank you Stuart - agree it is a hybrid, but very close to being Q petrea. What a marvellous tree!
According to the given OS grid reference this oak stands in the parish of St. Margarets, not in Michaelcurch Eskley. It is in a field near Shobdon Barn, well outside the nearby wood. Unfortunately I have not found a meaningful historical context for this land to place it in one of the categories used in my book Ancient Oaks in the English Landscape (MDP, TDP, RF, CHA, COM, manor).
Very interesting. The field in which it sits looks like pasture carved from the adjacent AW (much as the area 700m to the E was a decade or two ago). Isn't it most likely the tree is a relic of former common wood pasture, which was spared the axe for some reason? Wouldn't a deer park or chase be unlikely in this area which may have been part of Wales for parts of the medieval period?