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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.

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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