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Tree Information: ID 176

  • Species: Hornbeam
    (Carpinus betulus)
  • Council: Epping Parish: Chigwell
  • Form: PollardStatus:Veteran Tree
  • Girth: 2.40mHeight:10-15Age:1700-1750
  • Context: Forest
  • TPO number: Veteran Tree No.:
  • Grid Ref: TQ 46280 92937
  • Accessibility: Public - open access
  • Nominator: Peter Comber
  • Date Entered: 22 Nov 2006
  • Photograph©Date taken:

Reason for nomination:

  • "A beautifully formed pollarded Hornbeam tree that has survived for many centuries. Along with many others around it, it was regularly pollarded up until the end of the 19th century." Peter Comber

Remarks & Tree condition:

  • This veteran pollard is situated in Chigwell Row Wood Local Nature Reserve to the South by the stream.
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