ON BRITISH OAKS. 45 
The “Cowleigh Oak” is the most conspicuous tree in Malvern 
Chace for size and spread of bough. It is called ‘“ Cowley’s Oke” 
in a MS. Survey of Malvern Chace, a.p, 1633, and stands near 
Great Malvern, in the middle of a pasture next to Cowleigh farm- 
house. It has a circumference of 27 feet at 3 feet up. 
The “Great Burr Oak” is another remarkable tree, the result 
of pollarding, and which has hardly any trunk. It stands on the 
banks of the Teme in the parish of Leigh, about a mile west of 
Bransford Bridge, and has a circumference of 20 feet at 3 feet up. 
The ‘Gibbet Oak’ is supposed to derive its name from having 
been used as the place for hanging spies and traitors in the Wars or 
the Roses. It stands on a gentle eminence at short distance from the 
Tenbury and Bromyard main road in Kyre Park, Worcestershire. 
It measures 24 feet in girth at 5 feet up, and its huge and 
widely-extended arms, standing out at right angles some 8 feet or 
9 feet from the ground, seem to be well adapted for the use then 
made of it. 
The “Weeping Oak” at Moccas Court, Herefordshire, was 
considered by Loudon to be one of the most remarkable oaks in 
England. ‘The branches reach from about the middle of a 
trunk of 75 feet to within 7 feet of the ground, hanging down 
like cords, and many to a length of 30 feet, having a thickness 
which does not in any part of them exceed that of a common 
waggon rope. The entire head covers a space of 100 feet in 
diameter. 
The “ Weeping Oak” at King’s Acre, Hereford, was planted 
in 1785 by a Mr Cranston, and grafted at about 3 feet from the 
ground. The girth of the trunk at 4 feet up is 8 feet 6 inches; 
height to the lowest branch, 18 feet; spread of branches, 58 feet ; 
and the sheer height, 72 feet. 
The “Coronation Oak,” so called from the proclamation being 
announced therefrom on a king or queen being crowned, The 
coronation of Queen Victoria was announced from under the 
spreading boughs of this grand old tree. It stands in one of the 
meadows on the farm of Llanhenosk, near Caerleon, Monmouth. 
The circumference of the trunk in its largest part is 38 feet 
6 inches ; in the middle, 32 feet 1} inches ; and the smallest, 27 
feet 6 inches: the bole is 15 feet in height. 
The “Pencraig Oak” is on Pencraig Farm near Newport, 
Monmouth. It has a circumference of 38 feet; height to first 
branch, 15 feet, with a spread of branches of 36 yards, 
