View N along West Dart River to Wistman's Wood, UK: two isolated patches of high altitude (427m above sea-level) oak wood with ancient stunted trees.

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View N along the West Dart River to Wistman's Wood: two isolated patches of high altitude oak wood with ancient stunted trees surviving in moorland 427m above sea-level. Thought to date back to at least AD1700, the wood's survival is a mystery as is the fact that the trees are mainly pendunculate English oak (Quercus Robur) rather than the sessile oaks found elsewhere on Dartmoor.

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Location: Wistman's Wood, West Dart Valley, Two Bridges, Dartmoor, Devon, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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