Ancient oak tree, Monwode Lea
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Ancient oak tree, Monwode Lea
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 17 Oct 2023
This is a younger neighbour of the venerable Monwode oak tree Image], and stands a short distance away in the same field, which is crossed by a public footpath. 'Younger' for an oak, that is; it is perhaps three or four hundred years old, judging from the girth of 5.6m (at a height of 1.2m, according to the Woodland Trust Ancient Tree Inventory) and the ready reckoner cited by Steven Falk. Its crown is much reduced in size. See its page at the Ancient Tree Inventory https://ati.woodlandtrust.org.uk/tree-search/tree?treeid=224518&from=3523&v=2395484&ml=map&z=16&nwLat=52.52312719545651&nwLng=-1.609124965486508&seLat=52.51619405544825&seLng=-1.6002414892291839#/ and Falk's The Veteran Trees of Warwickshire https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349330488_The_Veteran_Trees_of_Warwickshire. It is a pedunculate oak, Quercus robur.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.519519
Longitude
-1.605851
