The Greendale Oak, Welbeck Park, Nottingham

The Greendale Oak, Welbeck Park, Nottingham. Famous hollow tree reputed to be 700 years old in the 18th century. Hollow widened with axes by Henry Bentinck in 1724 on a bet. North west view of the Green Dale Oak near Welbeck. Copperplate engraving by A. Rooker after a drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm from John Evelyn's Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest Trees and the Propagation of Timer, J. Dodsley, London, 1776

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