7 m round
about 5 people holding hands round it
On record with the Ancient Tree Inventory. Nobody here has been yet.
Hornbeam
An ancient tree, roughly 7.0 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 mapWestmeston, East Sussex
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 hornbeam.
- It's 7 m round the trunk, about 5 people holding hands round it. That's the easiest check there is.
- It's a coppice: cut at the base long ago, so look for a ring of stems coming out of one wide stool at ground level.
- It's recorded as fallen, so look for a big trunk lying on the ground.
- 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
- Coppice
- Trunk
- 7.0 m round (estimated)
- Condition
- Alive, Fallen
- Getting there
- Next to a footpath or road
- Where
- Plumpton Green, East Sussex
This record comes from the Ancient Tree Inventory. Data reproduced with the permission of The Woodland Trust. Where the data comes from.