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| Lingholm Spruce, Lingholm | ||
| Lingholm Spruce | ||
| site name:- | Lingholm Gardens | |
| locality:- | Lingholm | |
| civil parish:- | Above Derwent (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | tree | |
| locality type:- | spruce | |
| coordinates:- | NY254223 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2522 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY22 | |
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Large specimen of norway spruce, Picea abies, with a girth of 192 ins in 1992, largest
in England. The gardens were developed by Colonel George Kemp, 1900s, but trees were
already there; norway spruce was introduced about 1500. |
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| Bradshaw, Amy: 1991 (after): Ancient Interesting and Unusual Trees of Cumbria: Cumbria
Broadleaves (Bowness on Windermere, Cumbria):: ISBN 0 9524961 0 0 |
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