Hertfordshire Genealogy: Topic: Trees in Hertfordshire

The Old Elm, Aldbury
Frith's Series Z.7F.

This massive elm stood beside the pond at Aldbury until it was killed by Dutch Elm disease. An oak has now been planted in its place.

Does anyone have an early picture of the Deer Oak, Camfield Place, Essendon?

The Great Spanish Chestnut at Little Wymondley

There is a long article, but no picture, concerning this tree in the Hertfordshire Countryside for Spring 1947. What remained was merely part of the original but in 1789 William Gilpin wrote: This Chestnut grows at a place called Wimley, near Hitchin Priory in Hertfordshire. In the year 1789, at five feet above the ground, its girth was somewhat more than fourteen yards. Its trunk was hollow, and in part open. But its vegetation was still vigorous. On one side its vast arms, shooting up in various forms, some upright and others oblique, were decayed and peeled at the extremities, but issued from luxuriant foliage at their insertion in the trunk. On the other side the foliage was still full, and hid all decay."

An Oak and Elm in Cassiobury Park, Watford

From Britton's Cassiobury, published 1837

Latimer's Elm, Hadley Wood

Photochrome, ?1920's?

The Old Oak, Hadley

The Panshanger Oak

Article on the tree - with information on its dimensions from the Hertfordshire Illustrated Review, 1893

There is a later account (with picture) in the Hertfordshire Countryside Summer 1946 article Hertfordshire's famous Oaks.

(Other Oaks mentioned in this article include the Queen Elizabeth Oaks at Hatfield and Brocket Park; the Grimston Oak at Gorhambury, boundary oaks at Oxhey, and the Cardinal oak at Moor Park.)

Waller's Oak.

Coleshill

circa 1905

The Special Trees and Wood of the Chilterns web site has a page on the tree.

The Fig Tree at St Mary's Watford.

The Special Trees and Wood of the Chilterns web site has a page on the tree.

Sycamore and Ash also grow out of a tomb at Tewin