Tree Information: ID 4330

• Species: Pedunculate Oak
  (Quercus robur)
• Council: Epping Parish: Buckhurst Hill
• Form: PollardStatus:Ancient Tree
• Girth: 5.1mHeight:UnknownAge:-Pre 1700
• Context: Woodland edge
• TPO number: Veteran Tree No.:VT BHH038
• Grid Ref: TQ 40800 93516
  
• Accessibility: Public - open access
• Nominator: Kevin Mason
• Date Entered: 23 Nov 2010
• Photograph©Date taken:23 Nov 2010

Reason for nomination:

• Tree is the famous "Pulpit Oak", boundary marker between Buckhurst Hill and Woodford. Between Lords Bushes and Knighton Woods in Epping Forest at the northwest end of Monkhams Lane.

Remarks & Tree condition:

• Tree is showing signs of its great age with only three stems surviving despite valiant efforts by the Corporation of London to prolong it. It is surrounded by bramble as a protection and has numerous dead branches.