Old coppiced oak, Cottingley Wood Estate

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Old coppiced oak, Cottingley Wood Estate

Image: © Humphrey Bolton Taken: 25 May 2011

The way that the trunks radiate out from the base suggests that this tree was coppiced (cut off at ground level so that the new growth could be harvested every several years) at one time, but coppicing obviously ceased long ago.

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Image Location

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Latitude
53.830965
Longitude
-1.848026