This tree is marked on the Ordnance Survey 1/2500 map surveyed in 1883 but must have already been old then. I'm not sure if it is an old pollard or otherwise damaged but either way it looks to be slowly dying.
Uploaded to Geograph by Paul Collins on 17 April 2016
Photo © Paul Collins, 17 April 2016.
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