Ancient Trees

you can read all about ancient trees in chapter 9 of the Tree Warden handbook

Let's celebrate the ancient & notable trees in Haringey, and get them on the map.

we can enjoy visiting them, and it's also the best way to make sure they're valued and not neglected.

here's a couple that have been suggested already:

• horse chestnut in gardens of Methodist Church in Pages Lane, Muswell Hill, N10
• Bruce Castle Park - an old oak - probably around 450 years.
• Railway Fields - the oldest and largest field maple in North London. at least 100 yrs old. possibly an old hedgerow tree

talks: Ted Green & Keith Alexander from the Ancient Tree Forum & Ted has generously given us loads of leaflets

we could organise visits to special trees, and when we've gathered photos and information we don't have to keep it to ourselves:

The Ancient Tree Hunt http://www.ancient-tree-hunt.org.uk

the Woodland Trust is encouraging us to contribute ancient, veteran and notable trees to their interactive map. and this time it seems to be free.

someone's put a couple of Haringey trees in it already, including the Bruce Castle oak [here].

There's a new entry for a Queen's Wood pollarded hornbeam [here]. Mike Hacker from the Friends of Queen's Wood writes "This tree is probably similar in age to some of the other pollarded/coppiced hornbeams in the Wood. It is of particular interest as it sits on the bank of the former ditch and bank boundary between the Wood and the remnant of Highgate Common that is now the Summersby Road extension of the Wood. It’s unusually misshapen form probably indicates that it once formed part of a managed hedge or pale on top of the bank."

nb David Bevan says it's actually a stubbed hornbeam, not pollarded, but he's glad everyone's excited about it anyway!

Why don't we add more?

The Woodland Trust website offers lots of information and resources. Their leaflet on how to measure trees can also be downloaded [here]