Fig. to. — Oak .'^t Thorington'.'.Hali.. 

 (C Ircuwference , -^x feet. Photograph, J . C. Shcnstonc.) 



Arthur Young observes, " Sir John Barrington possesses in the 

 Hatfield Forest a very beautiful oak, for which a timber merchant 

 offered one hundred guineas. Near it is the ruin of a most vener- 



FiG. II. — OkigiiNal Hatfield Broad Oak. 

 {Fro>n Young s " Agriculture," i8iij.) 



