Preserved oak now lost
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Preserved oak now lost
Image: © Andrew Darge Taken: 7 Dec 2008
The planners did make an effort to retain a good number of specimen oaks on the new development of the St Peter's estate; this is one of the best of them. Sadly this tree suffered a catastrophic failure when almost half blew down in a gale; it was hollow and declared unsafe, thus had to be felled. A sapling oak has been planted to replace it.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.172393
Longitude
-2.198672