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of 19 feet at 5 feet up; sheer height about 80 feet. No. 2 hada 
circumference in 1879 of 19 feet 2 inches at 5 feet up, and a sheer 
height of 90 feet. 
“Miss Maury’s Oak” has been long spoken of as an object of 
interest, especially on account of the loving care and the value 
attached to it by its aged owner. It is not a large nor a very old 
tree, but is remarkable for its symmetrical proportions and finely- 
developed head. It stands in a paddock in front of the old farm- 
house in the parish of West Wellow, Wiltshire, and has a circum- 
ference of 16 feet 9} inches at 4} feet up; a bole of 9 feet to where 
ten large boughs had sprung from the parent stem, now only 
five, some of them 2 feet in diameter; the sheer height is 90 feet, 
and it spreads its branches from east to west 36 yards, and from 
north to south 33 yards. 
“No Man’s Oak,” or the ‘ Forest Tree,” is a striking object, 
standing on an elevated ridge at the northern boundary of the New 
Forest. Its knotted and gnarled trunk and bare arms, but scantily 
clothed with ivy, give it a weird-like appearance, as it stands alone 
without a companion living or dead. It is, however, quite dead, 
but is to all appearance sound timber, and it is difficult to account 
for its death. The place is named “No Man’s Land,” and here 
the counties of Hants and Wilts are divided by a bank and ditch 
which are wholly in Wilts, and on the bank stands the tree, about 
4 feet within the county. It has a circumference of 10 feet 
6 inches, and a bole of 10 feet. 
The “ Longleat Oak,” at the Marquis of Bath’s Wiltshire seat, 
has a circumference of 25 feet 6 inches at 5 feet up. 
‘Penrhyn Castle Oaks,” Caernarvonshire, of which there are two 
to be noticed, are standing near the castle. No. 1 girths 10 feet 
1 inch at 3 feet up, with a length of bole of 50 feet. No. 2 girths 
10 feet 10 inches at 3 feet up, 9 feet 7 inches at 5 feet up, with a 
length of bole of 43 feet. 
Although tradition reports some large ere which were in 
existence in ages past, both in England and Wales, the accounts 
relating to them are no doubt in many cases considerably exag- 
gerated ; still the measurement of some of them are sufficiently 
authenticated to warrant the conclusion that there are none at 
present in existence so large as some of the giants of old, as for 
example, the “Golynos Oak,” which grew about four miles from 
the town of Newport in Monmouthshire, which was felled in the 
year 1810 for the use of His Majesty’s navy, and contained the 
