Memorial Common
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Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 23 Dec 2010
The south eastern edge of the common near the A275 is now wooded a mixture of young birch and old oaks. Years of coppicing and pollarding have given the oaks some creepy shapes particularly in gloomy light.