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The “Lion Oak” stands also in Hatfield Park, and has a 
circumference of 32 feet. 
The “Grimston Oak” was planted by James, second Viscount 
Grimston, who died in 1773. The tradition is that Lord 
Verulam’s great grandfather planted this tree with his own hands 
some twenty years before his death, so that it would now be over 
one hundred and thirty years. It stands a few yards from Oxhey 
Chapel, about 2 miles from Watford, Hertfordshire, and has a 
circumference of 17 feet and a bole of 24 feet. 
Two “Pollard Oaks,” in Moor Park, Hertfordshire, girthing 
23 feet and 25 feet respectively ; said to have been pollarded or 
beheaded in 1686 by the Duchess of Monmouth in revenge for 
the execution of her husband. 
The “ Winfarthing Oaks” stand in the parish of Winfarthing, 
Norfolk. No. 1 has been long known as the ‘“‘ Winfarthing Oak.” 
Robert Marsham measured this tree in 1744, and gives the circum- 
ference as 38 feet 7 inches. Mr Geo. Southwell measured it in 
1874, when it had a circumference of 40 feet, giving an increase 
of 17 inches in 130 years. No. 2 was measured in the same years 
by the same gentlemen, and had a circumference in 1744 of 30 feet, 
and in 1874 still only 30 feet, having remained in statu quo. 
“ Wilberforce’s Oak,” at Holwood, Kent, so called from the 
great philanthropist who brought about the abolition of slavery. 
The following words, from his diary of the year 1788, are 
engraved on a stone chair which Earl Stanhope set up close 
to this historic tree in 1862; they are, “At length I well 
remember, after a conversation with Mr Pitt in the open air at 
the root of an old tree at Holwood, just above the steep descent 
into the vale of Keston, I resolved to give notice on a fit occasion 
in the House of Commons of my intention to bring forward the 
abolition of the slave trade.” This tree has a circumference of 
18 feet 1 inch at 3 feet up, and 18 feet 3 inches at 5 feet up. 
“Pitt's Oak,” at the same place, perpetuates the name of the 
great statesman. He used to sit and read underneath its spread- 
ing branches. It stands near Holwood House, and has a 
circumference of 20 feet 1 inch at 3 feet up, at 8 feet up it divides 
into four massive limbs and spreads its branches 57 feet, the 
sheer height being only 36 feet. 
The “Two Oaks” in Cowdray Park, Sussex. No. 1 was 
measured in 1819, and had a girth of 20 feet at 1 foot up, which 
was increased to 28 feet in 1879; at the same date it had a girth 
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