Woodhouses Lane and Lady Sarah's Tree
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Woodhouses Lane and Lady Sarah's Tree
Image: © Oliver Dixon Taken: 29 Jul 2020
Woodhouses Lane is a stone-dust surfaced bridleway, popular with walkers, cyclists and horse-riders, which skirts the west side of Whickham. A plaque secured to the dead tree to the left of the path identifies it as "Lady Sarah's Tree" - but who was Lady Sarah and what was her claim to fame?
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Image Location
Latitude
54.934577
Longitude
-1.701254