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Old Rectory Oak, Bowness-on-Windermere
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:-
"The Famous Oak Tree at Windermere Rectory"
"... / 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."

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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