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Common horse chestnut
Down
Recorded by: Peter Lyons, Ancient Tree Hunt Project (HLF)
- Species:
- Common horse chestnutAesculus hippocastanum
- Form:
- Maiden
- Standing or fallen:
- Gone
- Living status:
- Dead
- Girth:
- 4.38m at a height of 0.70m
- Veteran status:
- Lost Veteran tree
- County:
- Down
- Country:
- Northern Ireland
- Grid reference:
- J50538127
- Public accessibility:
- Public - open access
- Surroundings:
- Parkland
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Common horse chestnut
Down
Recorded by: Peter Lyons, Ancient Tree Hunt Project (HLF)
- Species:
- Common horse chestnut
- Form:
- Maiden
- Standing or fallen:
- Gone
- Living status:
- Dead
- Girth:
- 4.38m at a height of 0.70m
- Condition:
- Hollowing branches
- Veteran status:
- Lost Veteran tree
- Tree number:
- 3990
- Local or historic name:
- --
- County:
- Down
- Country:
- Northern Ireland
- Grid reference:
- J50538127
- Public accessibility:
- Public - open access
- Surroundings:
- Parkland
- Ancient tree site:
- --
- Woodland Trust wood:
- No
- Epiphytes:
- Lichen, Fern
- Fungi:
- --
- Invertebrates:
- --
- Bats:
- --
- Recorded by:
- Peter Lyons
- Recording organisation:
- Ancient Tree Hunt Project (HLF)
- Last visited:
- 07/11/2007
- First recorded:
- 07/11/2007
This tree has now been cut down in the name of Health and Safety. It showed signs of fungal attack last autumn, with Dryad's Saddle growths showing. The butchers of North Down Borough Council immediately came out and removed all vestiges of the tree, grubbed out the roots. No replacement tree or trees planted. This tree could have been mad safe without removing it. It could have been turned into a sculpture. Why do these people in control not have any imagination.