Common Oak 



313 



" 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." 



Number 

 (in Mr. Open- 

 shaw's Table). 



No. 

 10 



13 

 16 



23 



25 

 57 

 60 

 62 



63 



72 



78 

 79 



81 



82 

 91 

 97 



Girth at 5 Feet 

 High. 



Feet. Inches. 



2 I 



15 

 17 

 19 

 17 

 18 



13 

 17 

 19 

 15 



IS 



18 



16 

 14 



17 

 14 



6 

 o 

 6 

 6 

 o 

 o 

 6 



5 

 6 



9 



2 



9 



6 



o 



Contents. 



Trunk. 



Feet. 

 644 

 538 

 447 

 45° 

 393 

 421 

 604 

 666 

 447 

 573 

 558 

 694 



532 



522 



851 

 633 



Tops. 



Feet. 

 I 29 

 83 

 156 

 200 



258 



249 

 112 

 224 

 184 

 60 

 145 

 150 



160 

 1 10 

 180 

 100 



Total Content 

 of Tree. 



Feet. 



773 

 621 

 603 

 650 



651 

 670 

 716 

 890 

 631 



633 

 703 

 844 



692 



632 



1031 



733 



Remarks. 



Very large spurs at base. 



Blown down, 1904. 



Forks. 



Forks. 



Tree in group. 



Single tree in photo., facing 



Kyre House. 

 Leans, large top. 



Ivy growing, largest tree. 

 By holly tree. 



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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 dravv^n 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 ,, 



18 feet by 48 inches = 288 feet. 

 20 ., 40 ,, = 222 ,, 

 50 ,, 24 ,, = 200 ,, 



710 feet. 



^100 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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