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originally attacked, increasing on it but not 

 spreading in numbers to the trees adjoining. 



14. Druids' Walk. Top more than half broken 



away by snow-storm, the remainder bent 

 down to the ground. The trunk is half 

 surrounded by vigorous young shoots. 



15. On path, near to the preceding, has a fine 



head, measuring 75 feet by 81 feet. Cir- 

 cumference of umbrage 258 feet. Jennings 

 gives 230 feet. 



1 6. Has three trunks much damaged by galls; 



several years' rosettes and dead branches 

 remaining on the tree. At 3 feet, the girth 

 is 22 feet. The central stem measures 

 17 feet. 



17. Measures 6 feet 2 inches at 3 feet from the 



ground. There are two trunks close to- 

 gether at 1 5 feet. 



1 There is no history concerning them which can 

 be relied on. They are not mentioned in Domes- 

 day Book, which resulted from a census which 

 took little account of any growths in field or forest, 

 except those which fed swine.' l 



Brailey 2 says : ' Many of these trees are of great 

 age . . . and of a girth seldom equalled. In some 

 instances the circumference of the stem is full 7 

 yards at 3 or 4 feet from the ground. There is 



1 Rev. J. S. Bright in a letter to Miss R. 



2 Sir T. Dick Lauder, History of Surrey, vol. iv. p. 453. 



