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Brimmon Oak
Brimmon Oak in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Brimmon Oak is a place of interest in Wales Mid, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Brimmon Oak is a veteran tree in Newtown, Powys, Wales. A pedunculate oak (sometimes called "English oak"), it is thought to be around 500 years old and has been on land farmed by the same family since the 1600s. The tree was scheduled to be felled as part of the construction of the A483 Newtown Bypass in 2015 but was saved as the result of a petition. The tree was named both Welsh and British Tree of the Year for 2016 and was runner up in the European Tree of the Year awards of 2017.
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Background
History
The Brimmon Oak is thought to be more than 500 years old. The tree has been pollarded for timber in the past and has a girth of over 6 m. The land the tree stands on has been owned by the same family of farmers for generations the current owner claims his family has farmed the field around the tree since the 1600s, and a 1901 photograph shows a wedding party sheltering beneath the tree's canopy. It has been described as one of the most significant natural monuments of Montgomeryshire, the historic county in which it stands. A further petition was launched in May 2018 to name the soon-to-be opened bypass as the "Newtown Brimmon Oak Bypass" in honour of the tree.
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- Coordinates
- 52.5125, -3.2929
- Address
- Newtown, Powys, Wales
- Established
- 1500
Sources
- wikidata: Q55605947 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Brimmon Oak (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Brimmon Oak?
- Brimmon Oak is in Mid Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 52.5125°, -3.2929°.
- When was Brimmon Oak built?
- Brimmon Oak dates to 1500.