Fallen Black Poplar
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Fallen Black Poplar
Image: © Bob Embleton Taken: 21 Feb 2010
One pollarded Black Poplar tree by Hancocks Lane is healthy, but the other has fallen. Pollarding, regularly cutting the branches off at a height above that which cattle can reach, results in a top heavy trunk. If the interior of the lower trunk rots the whole tree can collapse.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.053087
Longitude
-2.321372