. Essex naturalist: being the journal of the Essex Field Club. t half coveredwith wood, among which, with a great deal of other very valu-able timber, is an oak that measures at 5ft. from the ground, circumference, and is thought will cut to timber at ninety Forest is now enclosed in the park of Hallingbury Place. Great Yeldhain Oak.—At Great Yeldham there is an immense oaktree which, staiiding in the centre of a three-cross way, forms a veryprominent object and is familiar to every one in that part of the county. In the History of Essex by a Gentleman, the following passa
. Essex naturalist: being the journal of the Essex Field Club. t half coveredwith wood, among which, with a great deal of other very valu-able timber, is an oak that measures at 5ft. from the ground, circumference, and is thought will cut to timber at ninety Forest is now enclosed in the park of Hallingbury Place. Great Yeldhain Oak.—At Great Yeldham there is an immense oaktree which, staiiding in the centre of a three-cross way, forms a veryprominent object and is familiar to every one in that part of the county. In the History of Essex by a Gentleman, the following passageoccvirs, referring to this tree :— On this road, and near the church, is a remarkable large oakv tree, supposedto be upwards of three hundred j^ears old. (A person in this parish, near onehundred ^ars of age, declares that when she was a child, sh-e heard a person,who was then older than her by eighty years, say that in his infancy this tree wasdistinguished by the appellation of old oak), the stem of which measures twenty- !? THE OAK IREK IN 1- ;i;. 14.—Oak at Great ;even test three quarters, but the height is not in proportion to the bulk ; the?tern from the branches being not above twelve feet high, and the height of thei-hole not exceeding eighty feet. At the place where this oak stands, the roadrem Braintree is divided into the form of a letter Y. This tree is in a much decayed condition. Every care has beenaken to preserve the trunk as far as possible by building it up with:ement, and otherwise supporting it. The view I give of it wasaken from a field adjoining the road. Twinsted Oak.—At Twinsted, opposite the church, there is a
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