Sign on beech tree in grounds of Chevening House records a shooting party's gift to Earl Stanhope.

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Sign (legible in photograph) reads: 'FAGUS / SYLVATICA PURPUREA RIVERSII / PLANTED BY / JAMES RICHARD / 7TH EARL STANHOPE / AND PRESENTED TO HIM BY THE GUNS / WHO SHOT AT CHEVENING ON THE / OCCASION OF HIS 80TH BIRTHDAY / 11TH NOVEMBER 1960'

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Size: 4288px × 2848px
Location: Chevening, Kent, England, UK
Photo credit: © UrbanImages / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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