Champion
tree for the chop
One of the largest purple beech ever recorded is to be felled, all for the
sake of six car parking spaces, even though it is just a short walk from a
public car park in the middle of Northampton. (Photos of this tree can be
at www.tree-register.org/)
Local councillor John Yates is fighting to save this historic veteran tree,
previously unrecorded.
If you would like to express your objection to the cutting down of this
tree - email us here at the Tree Register on, savethebeech@tree-register.org
using the subject title "Save the Beech" and a petition will be
forwarded to
John. We have until January 2002 to save this tree which currently appears
as a champion on "tree register" members champion tree database.
The beech was the centrepiece in a garden behind the house built by Dr
William Kerr in Sheep Street. Kerr was the founder of the General Hospital
in Northampton. Along with a colleague he bought up all the properties in
Sheep Street and replaced them with Georgian fronted houses. His own house
was the one now used as the Working Men's Club, behind which the beech
stands. It grows in an old quarry or ditch that was backfilled in the
historic past, and was known as The Delph.
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