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| Merewood Chestnut, Lakes | ||
| Merewood Chestnut | ||
| site name:- | Merewood (?) | |
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | tree | |
| locality type:- | sweet chestnut | |
| coordinates:- | NY394012 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3901 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
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Coppiced example of a sweet chestnut, Castanea sativa; eight large trunks, probably
last coppiced about 1900. |
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| Bradshaw, Amy: 1991 (after): Ancient Interesting and Unusual Trees of Cumbria: Cumbria
Broadleaves (Bowness on Windermere, Cumbria):: ISBN 0 9524961 0 0 |
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