Tree Information: ID 47

• Species: Willow
  Salix alba (White)
• Council: Epping Parish: Loughton
• Form: PollardStatus:Land Mark Tree
• Girth: Height:15-20Age:1900-1950
• Context: Park
• TPO number: Veteran Tree No.:VT LN145
• Grid Ref: TQ 42448 96580
  
• Accessibility: Public - open access
• Nominator: Herbert Laverton
• Date Entered: 01 Aug 2006
• Photograph©Date taken:

Reason for nomination:

• "Going down Traps Hill, Loughton looking over to the cricket field comes into view a magnificent golden weeping willow adorning the rather mundane High Road. What a wonderful sight, with catkins in bloom on a spring day” Hubert Laverton.

Remarks & Tree condition:

• The weeping Willow is a hybrid of the native White Willow and probably originated in France some 200 years ago. It is a very fast growing and water thirsty tree. This tree situated on the edge of the cricket field near the High Street, Loughton.