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| *****SWAAG_ID***** | 278 |
| Date Entered | 11/09/2011 |
| Updated on | 29/10/2011 |
| Recorded by | Tim Laurie |
| Category | Tree Site Record |
| Record Type | Botanical HER |
| Site Access | Private |
| Record Date | 25/08/2011 |
| Location | Ivelet Bridge |
| Civil Parish | Muker |
| Brit. National Grid | Hidden |
| Altitude | 242m |
| Geology | Drift covered slope above river flood plain. |
| Record Name | Jocelyn's Ancient Ash Hedgerow Coppard |
| Record Description | Ash 9.30m girth at 1.1m height. Originally pollarded just above ground level then layered within a hedgerow which predated the dry stone parliamentary enclosure wall which abuts this tree.
The largest of the ongrowths from the base of this ash tree measures 3m girth and may have been previously cut some 150 years ago.
This ancient tree which is the largest ash tree yet recorded in Swaledale may be of of similar age as the largest of the ancient elm pollards of Swaledale, now mostly dead, which were considered to date to the 16th C. |
| Dimensions | 9.3m girth at 1.1m above ground level. |
| Geographical area | Upper Swaledale |
| Species | Common ash. |
| Scientific Name | Fraxinus excelsior. |
| Common / Notable Species | This tree is exceptional, firstly in that it is of great girth and of great age and secondly in that the visible characteristics of this tree preserves aspects of Swaledale Landscape History not otherwise familiar. This ash tree was at a very early date, coppiced as a source of usable timber, then allowed to grow on before being cut and laid as a hedgerow tree. This tree preserves the fact of the existence in Swaledale of fields bounded by hedgerows, not stone walls. Evidence for relict hedgerows is widespread throughout Swaledale. One of the aims of this HER will be to record many such relict hedgerow trees in order to allow a reconstruction of the hedgerow landscape which predated the dry stone walled fields of the 18th/19th C. enclosures so familiar to all admirers of the Swaledale landscape. |
| Tree and / or Stem Girth | 9.3m at 1.10m height |
| Tree: Position / Form / Status | Short pollard or coppard later layered as a hedgerow tree. |
| Additional Notes | First recognised and reported by Mrs Jocelyn Campbell. |
| Image 1 ID | 1035 Click image to enlarge |
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| Image 2 ID | 1036 Click image to enlarge |
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| Image 3 ID | 1037 Click image to enlarge |
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| Image 4 ID | 1038 Click image to enlarge |
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| Image 5 ID | 1039 Click image to enlarge |
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| Image 6 ID | 1040 Click image to enlarge |
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