Tuesday 4 February 2014

Veteran Trees in London

A friend posted the following on Facebook, below. Which made me think. We could do much more with veteran trees in London.... They should be on Panoramio / Google Maps and Flickr / Bing maps and their should be a handy app to take a photo and upload some text and a location so people could hunt them down.... It is one thing to have dead old artefacts and buildings of great antiquity... quite another to have a living connection

At a bend in the River Brent where it forms the boundary that separates Hanwell London W7 from Southall, Middlesex stands this ancient oak tree estimated to be over 900 years old---frequently battered about in storms and floods its been struck by lightning several times and lost branches yet still every spring its bright green oak leaves create a marvellous canopy ---here it is as it was today in late Winter …..

At a bend in the River Brent where it forms the boundary that separates Hanwell London W7 from Southall, Middlesex stands this ancient oak tree estimated to be over 900 years old---frequently battered about in storms and floods its been struck by lightning several times and lost branches yet still every spring its bright green oak leaves create a marvellous canopy ---here it is as it was today in late Winter …..
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 (and they do often mark either boundaries or meeting places)  See the...
...Gernikako Arbola















Epping's Veteran Tree Hunt  is an excellent initiative but it is one that the Mayor of London would do well to emulate across the capital. The Woodland Trust had an Ancient Tree Huint in 2010 http://www.ancient-tree-hunt.org.uk/NR/exeres/FEB31FC5-7628-4D5F-B8DE-398CA9F51858.htm   but it needs an extra push (Springwatch?)







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Location: River Brent, Greater London, UK

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