[HN Gopher] From ancient oaks to walking yews: Britain's great t...
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From ancient oaks to walking yews: Britain's great trees, forests
and avenues
Author : tolerable
Score : 47 points
Date : 2022-05-06 17:31 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
| oblak wrote:
| Good for them. They should cherish what little they have left.
| I've only visited England twice and there are hardly any trees in
| the wild. Well, at least compared to central and eastern Europe.
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| Lots of green, mind you. Just not trees.
| mmikeff wrote:
| Not sure what all the down votes are for, I'm English and this
| is completely correct.
| dvh wrote:
| I still didn't get over the actual size of the Sherwood forest.
| It's like 2-3 miles across.
| detritus wrote:
| People were shorter back in Robin Hood's day, so Sherwood was
| bigger for them.
| perihelions wrote:
| Related tangent (on wild bees that nest in the trunks of very old
| British oaks):
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29137277 ( _" Ancient bees
| found in Blenheim palace estate_")
| ageitgey wrote:
| In what is possibly the most British thing ever, there is a
| volunteer group called the The Tree Register that catalogs all
| the best trees in the country and awards the exclusive status of
| "Champion Tree" to those specific trees.
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| Champion Trees get awarded a special blue plaque and are added to
| the national database. Then people who are so inclined can visit
| all the best specimens of each species.
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| "CHAMPION TREES are the tallest and fattest of their type and the
| database of 69,000+ champion trees is available online to
| members."
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| https://www.treeregister.org/about-us/who-we-are/
| andrewl wrote:
| Very interesting! I didn't know about the redwoods in Scotland. I
| wonder if you'd be allowed to plant non-native trees now.
|
| There's a dawn redwood in Brooklyn:
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| https://greatesttreesofnyc.tumblr.com/post/125394832885/dawn...
| kitd wrote:
| The yews at Kingley Vale are well worth a visit if you're in the
| Chichester area. They're fantastically twisted and gnarled, like
| giant limbs reaching out to grab you as you pass.
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| Most are believed to have been planted by the Saxons to celebrate
| a victory over the Vikings, but apparently some may go back to
| Roman times.
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| Unbelievably, it was used as a bombing practice range by the RAF
| in WW2!
| hetspookjee wrote:
| For anyone interested in more trees, or specific to their
| environment. This website hosts quite a large overview of
| interesting specimen and data points:
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| http://monumentaltrees.com
| wintermutestwin wrote:
| That site is awesome. Unfortunately, some of the best sort
| links aren't working
|
| From the photos page all of the sort links are broken:
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| Highest average rating first * Most viewed photos first *
| Newest photos first * Photos of largest girth trees first *
| Photos of largest girth single trunk trees first * Photos of
| tallest trees first (only accurate measurements) * Photos of
| tallest trees first (including less accurate estimates) *
| Photos of oldest trees first * Highest own rating first
| hetspookjee wrote:
| I havent ran in that issue actually, perhaps as I am using
| the site a bit different. The way I navigate it is by
| filtering on a country (or not) first, and than ordering by
| the properties (girth / height) and than selecting the
| specific link which pops up the relevant page.
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