Common Oak 



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" Kyre Park. Measure of oak trees in Woodpatch grove made by John 

 W. Openshaw, November 1904. The tape girths are over bark taken at 5 feet. The 

 quarter-girth is the middle of first length taken under bark. Eleven trees removed 

 (1883, 1887, 1897) contained 2990 feet, average 272 feet. Ninety-seven trees now 

 standing contain 38,365 feet, growing on 5 acres, 2 roods, 19 poles of land; an 

 average of 395! feet per tree. A hundred and eight trees contained 41,365 cubic 

 feet, an average of 383 feet per tree. There remain distinct traces of sixty and 

 indistinct traces of ten trees having been removed, including the eleven referred to 

 above." 



There is an oak of remarkable size in another part of the Kyre estate called the 

 Mannings, growing on high ground exposed to the north, in a rough pasture 

 overgrown with trees, which no doubt have drawn it up in youth. It is 113 feet 

 in total height, with a trunk nearly straight to about 90 feet high, where the head 

 begins^ and 15 feet 10 inches in girth. Mr. Openshaw and I estimated its contents 

 as follows : 



1st length 

 2nd 

 3rd 



18 feet by 48 inches = 288 feet. 

 20 ,, 40 .. = 222 

 50 ,, 24 ,, = 200 



710 feet. 



;^ioo was refused for this tree a few years ago. 



There is also in the deer park a circle with a diameter of fifty yards formed by 

 ten (formerly twelve) oaks of great age and very spreading in habit, and a very 



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