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Old Rectory Oak |
| site name:- |
Old Rectory |
| site name:- |
Parson Wyke Country House |
| Street:- |
Glebe Road |
| locality:- |
Bowness-on-Windermere |
| civil parish:- |
Windermere (formerly Westmorland) |
| county:- |
Cumbria |
| locality type:- |
tree |
| locality type:- |
oak |
| coordinates:- |
SD399963 |
| 1Km square:- |
SD3996 |
| 10Km square:- |
SD39 |
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Old oak, Quercus sp, dated to about 1420. It is described in a poem by A A Stock,
1826:-
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"The Famous Oak Tree at Windermere Rectory"
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"... / Five centuries of hardy, blooming growth / Have given thee girth, and to thy
country power / To mock the winds of Time, and in this hour / She stands, like thee,
for honour, freedom both. / O may she, though the threatening storms clouds lower,
/ Keep ever faithful to her plighted troth."
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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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