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The Ancient Marton Oak...
a great survivor.
By Austin Farrell - click here |
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The Ancient Yews of Northern
England
Paul Greenwood (A founder member of the Ancient Yew Group) can be
contacted at
yewtrees@btopenworld.com
Click here for more photos
and information |
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Images and stories about Yews from Andy
McGeeney
The meaning of Yew - click
here
Borrowdale Cumbria - click
here
Pennant Melangell, Powysn -
click here
Crowhurst, Surrey - click
here
Ninfield, Sussex - click here
Visit Andy's website at
www.andymcgeeney.com |
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'Big Belly' - Forestry experts
hope a giant brace will stop a 1,000-year-old oak tree splitting in half
Legend tells how the devil can be summoned by anyone dancing naked round the
Big Belly Oak in Savernake Forest, Wiltshire - to read more about this
fascinating tree
click here |
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If you have any works
of writing or poetry (or anything else 'cultural' relating to ancient trees)
please send them in - details here |
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P William Cowper
(1731-1800).
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The Poplar Field -
click here
The poem is a favourite of Sheila Johnson - thanks to her for sending it in. |
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Peter Collinson
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In 1776 Peter Collinson, then Britain's leading
dendrologist, described the Tortworth chestnut as "the largest tree in
England, being 52 feet (15.8 metres) around." He went on to say if we pay
"regard to an old tradition of the three periods given to the oak and
chesnut, viz.
Three hundred years growing.
Three hundred years standing.
Three hundred years decaying.
It countenances my conjecture, that this venerable chesnut is not much less
than a thousand years old". |
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| John Clare |
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Passage from the letters of the poet John Clare
concerning his two favourite Elms -
click here |
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| John Wyatt |
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John Wyatt, 1998, from the book "Reflections" on
the Lake District -
click here |
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| Joyce Rupp |
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The Cosmic Dance -
click here |
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| Rev Francis
Kilvert |
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The ancient trees in Moccas Park -
click here |
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| Edith Nesbit
(1858 - 1924) |
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A poem called "Child's song in spring" by the
author of the "Railway Children" -
click here |
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Humphry Repton |
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"Observations on the Theory and Practice of
Landscape Gardening" 1803 click
here |
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Tree spirits |
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Poem by L. Perfect, Kent -
click here |
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Assorted quotes |
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Quotes on an ancient tree theme -
click here |
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