A chestnut avenue
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A chestnut avenue
Image: © Bob Harvey Taken: 4 Jun 2023
A row of Horse Chestnut trees has lined this path to the gardens at Ayscoughee Hall for a long time now. Not always the same trees, some have been removed and replacements planted. But they are all Horse Chestnuts. Aesculus hippocastanum is not native to the UK, but was introduced in 1616 from the mountains in the north of Greece. It was very popular with landscape architects in the later 17th and early 18th century. The introduction into England was at about the same time that the Johnsons acquired the 15th century house, which they retained for nearly 300 years. It is not too fanciful to suppose that this planting may have been done by that lineage fairly early on. One or two of the trees are of great antiquity.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.784556
Longitude
-0.149649