Tree Information: ID 129

• Species: Pedunculate Oak
  (Quercus robur)
• Council: Epping Parish: Buckhurst Hill
• Form: MaidenStatus:Veteran Tree
• Girth: 3.70 mHeight:20 PlusAge:1750-1800
• Context: Street
• TPO number: Veteran Tree No.:VT BHH002
• Grid Ref: TQ 41642 94105
  
• Accessibility: Public - partial access next to right of way
• Nominator: Patricia Wiltshire
• Date Entered: 10 Oct 2006
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Reason for nomination:

• "John and I have lived opposite this grand old oak for some 20 years. We have in the past had a love/hate relationship with our tree. On the hate side it blocks light, looms large over our little house: it drops acorns and at some point in the year a sticky sap covers my car. This sticky sap is joined by bird droppings of various sizes and intensity. (We think there is a family of large pigeons in the tree) During gales it has frightened me and I have had nightmares about it falling on our house and wiping us all out, cats and all, in one fell swoop. EFDC have kindly reduced it twice (in 1990 and 2002) and assured me that it is strong and steadfast. The love part comes from knowing that whatever slings and arrows have been thrown at it in 20 years and the many centuries it has been standing, it will be there long after we are gone. Hopefully people who live opposite it in the future will come to love it and respect it as we have. It is a truly magnificent tree."Patricia Wiltshire

Remarks & Tree condition:

• This veteran tree stands on Palace Gardens, Buckurst Hill.