Shelters on Ham Green
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Shelters on Ham Green
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 16 Aug 2021
The wooden shelter stands close to the large tree, both offering a modicum of shelter. The tree is a more modern specimen: in the nineteenth century there was a very large elm tree here with a girth of 36 feet and height of 120 feet! But it became diseased and after a terible gale on 19th December, 1884, came down and almost flattened a cottage. The New Inn decided to change its name to Ham Tree thereafter. A new elm tree was planted to replace it but that too became diseased and was felled in 1975. Ham Green was created after the 1867 Enclosure Act, when it was one of four parcels of land allocated to the churchwardens and overseers of Holt. The village stocks were also here in the early 1800s.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.353747
Longitude
-2.203866