Fredville Park Stump 7
40 x 30 cm, © 2022,
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The roots of this stump of one of the many impressive Sweet Chestnut trees in Fredville Park in Nonington, near Canterbury in Kent, give us a glimpse into a fairy tale world. One gets lost between the roots and discovers all kinds of things over and over again. But in fact we came to this Public Estate for the 'Majesty', the ancient Fredville Oak. The opinions about the age of this oak differ widely. There are people claiming that it is at least a 1000 years old. But the well-known English dendrologue Alan Mitchell estimated it in 1990 about 450 years old, yet still a very respectable age. ...