Dead Elm
Introduction
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Dead Elm
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: 28 May 2010
Probably nobody much under 40 remembers elm trees as woodland giants. Mature elms were wiped out in the 1970s by dutch elm disease and the species now survives in a sort of half life with saplings regenerating from root stock but never growing much beyond 6 or 7 metres before the disease kills them off again. Hedgerows are full of these spiky remnants of trees destined never to grow old.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.647252
Longitude
-1.072508