Pollarding a Plane
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Pollarding a Plane by Martin Addison as part of the Geograph project.
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Pollarding a Plane
Image: © Martin Addison Taken: 16 Mar 2007
One of Long Lane's Plane trees gets a haircut. The branches that are removed are shredded and used for garden and wood products. This tree finally succumbed to decay, you can see the split in the bark just above the green car, and was chopped down in June 2008.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.595578
Longitude
-0.176857