Aston Tirrold: passageway and pleached lime trees
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Aston Tirrold: passageway and pleached lime trees
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 7 May 2019
A footpath leads west from the south-west corner of the churchyard. Seeing the pleached limes 'holding hands', I was reminded that this form of tree-training was once far more often met with. My memory on the matter isn't entirely clear, but if I'm right pergolas formed by pleaching were a frequent feature of municipal parks half a century ago. Since then - it seems to me - pleaching has rather gone out of fashion - perhaps because of changing attitudes to nature, perhaps simply for reasons of cost.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.570496
Longitude
-1.19888