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| Old Hollow Tree, Wharton | ||
| locality:- | Wharton Hall | |
| locality:- | Wharton | |
| civil parish:- | Wharton (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | tree | |
| locality type:- | oak | |
| coordinates:- | NY770063 (about) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY7706 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY70 | |
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| hearsay:- |
"... before reaching the Entrance Gate to the Hall, we have on our right" |
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| "THE OLD HOLLOW TREE," |
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| "which is worthy of more than a mere passing glance. The tree is still alive [1920s?]
yet the heart has rotted away, and the cavity is capable of holding half-a-dozen full-grown
people. It is difficult to compute its age. We were speaking to an old inhabitant
who had known the tree for eighty years, and he asserted that it had never changed
with the exception of new shoots. Legend says Thomas, Lord Wharton, planted this oak
to commemorate his great victory over the Scots at Sollom Moss, but as this battle
took place over 300 years ago we will leave our readers to fom their own opinions." |
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