The Mighty Oak

[JDHUNTING 1,817]

Found this tree on my travels one time down Bristol way. I was absolutely blown away by the sheer scale and beauty of it and it ranks up there if not above with any animal I've seen for just being in awe of nature. 

Not the greatest pics as they don't do justice to it but thought I'd share anyhow.

Anybody else have any other oaks or great trees worth checking out if I'm ever in the area? 

There's a yew tree just up the road from me with a trunk that must be 10-12ft across I'm gonna go measure this week now I've reminded myself.

May e boring for some but I think their awesome if they could talk they'd have some tales to tell. You can see why their so steeped in our folklore when your up close to trees like this.

[Greyman 28,822]

Ashton court ???

[JDHUNTING 1,817]

No it's a place called Tracy park

[JDHUNTING 1,817]

I e just had a quick gander on Google maps and its well over a hundred feet across which might make it the biggest tree in Britain? Amazing

[Greyman 28,822]

When I’m next up frampton on Severn I have a little pamphlet about the village and if I remember there may be some historical trees around the village green and estate I,ll grab it for you

[gnasher16 30,279]

Are my peepers playing up whats them 2 ghostly looking figures on the left in the first picture they look ready to perform some sort of satanic ritual....its not one of them trees is it !

[JDHUNTING 1,817]

5 minutes ago, gnasher16 said:

Are my peepers playing up whats them 2 ghostly looking figures on the left in the first picture they look ready to perform some sort of satanic ritual....its not one of them trees is it !

Their fir trees I think though it wouldn't surprise me the building behind it is centuries old and filled with strange symbols and the like, like something from the da Vinci code

Edited September 6, 2020 by JDHUNTING

[king 11,980]

I posted this on here a good few years ago JDHUNTING.well worth a watch.very interesting documentary..

 

[JDHUNTING 1,817]

[JDHUNTING 1,817]

Epic sid

[gnipper 6,520]

Everyone should do their bit and get some trees planted, did I mention we sell trees at work ?

[WILF 47,354]

My favourite tree, it’s the symbol of England to me way above St George.

The connection go’s back much further to our ancestors as the Oak tree was sacred I believe.

It was special to all the north European people but especially to us Britons, Celts and our German kin 

[fireman 10,944]

1 hour ago, gnipper said:

Everyone should do their bit and get some trees planted, did I mention we sell trees at work ?

The house i live in isn't very far at all from where The Winfarthing Oak stood (google it) and many years ago the old fella who used to live here went and picked some acorns from it and put them in a tin in the shed.Years later he died and a pal of his was helping his misses clear out the shed and he found the acorns and knew where they were from and took them home with him,one sprouted and grew into a little tree and he took the little tree back to his dead pals misses and planted it in her garden.It still grows here and although the leaves and acorns do my fecking head in i just cannot cut it down now i know the story..So anyone want some proper acorns d from a mighty oaks direct desendant then come fill your buckets......

[TOMO 26,503]

2 hours ago, sid g said:

I used to live just a few miles from the major oak...and when I left school I ended up working in sherwood you could still go isnide it back then as the trunk is hollow...

a great tree certainly.. estimated to be about 800 years old ...I think it's believed to have been pollarded in its early years

[socks 32,253]

My father planted an acorn in the garden the day my eldest daughter was born (his first grandchild) ... it’s 28 years old now ..........