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by visitors. He remarked that 'it is in the 

 Grothio style of architecture, and a fine specimen 

 of the carving of ninety years ago.' 



Amongst other Oaks famous for their size 

 must be mentioned the Worksop Oak, which, 

 according to Gilpin, was, in point of grandeur, 

 equalled by few trees. ' It overspread a space 

 of ninety feet from the extremities of its Opposite 

 boughs, dimensions which would produce an 

 area capable, in mathematical calculation, of 

 covering a squadron of 235 horse.' It spread 

 its shade over a portion of three counties — York- 

 shire, Nottinghamshire, and Derbyshire — and was 

 hence fitly called the ' Shire Oak.' The stem of 

 the Tairlop Oak at a yard from the ground was 

 thirty-six feet in girth, and it divided into eleven 

 vast arms, yet not in the horizontal manner of an 

 Oak, but rather in that of a Beech. It over- 

 spread an area of 300 feet in circuit, in which an 

 annual fair used to be held. It was, however, 

 blown down in 1820 during high, winds. 

 Damory's Oak, near Blandford, in Dorsetshire, 

 was sixty-eight feet in circumference at the 

 ground, and seventeen feet above the ground 



