4.6 m round
about 3 people holding hands round it
On record with the Ancient Tree Inventory. Nobody here has been yet.
The Melmerby Crab
Wild apple
An ancient tree, 4.6 m round the trunk
Next to a footpath or road rather than in open ground.
Take me thereI'm here, add itPhotograph it, say why it's worth seeing, and it goes on the map as a Cool Tree, found by you. Anybody can add to it after that.
Where it is
Show on the mapMelmerby, North Yorkshire
The position comes from a survey, so expect to be within a few metres rather than standing at the trunk.
Is this the one?
What to check when you get there.
- It should be a wild apple.
- It's 4.6 m round the trunk, about 3 people holding hands round it. That's the easiest check there is.
- It's part of a laid hedge, so look along the hedge line for a trunk bent over and grown along the ground.
- Only part of it is still standing, so look for a shell or a broken trunk rather than a whole tree.
- People round here may know it as The Melmerby Crab, and there's sometimes a sign.
- The position came from a surveyor, so it can be a few metres out. If two big trees are close together, the girth usually settles it.
What the survey recorded
- Status
- Ancient tree
- Form
- Laid(hedgerow)
- Trunk
- 4.6 m round
- Condition
- Alive, Remnant
- Getting there
- Next to a footpath or road
- Where
- North Yorkshire
This record comes from the Ancient Tree Inventory. Data reproduced with the permission of The Woodland Trust. Where the data comes from.