Tree Information: ID 724

• Species: Pedunculate Oak
  (Quercus robur)
• Council: Epping Parish: Buckhurst Hill
• Form: MaidenStatus:Veteran Tree
• Girth: 4mHeight:20 PlusAge:-Pre 1700
• Context: Garden
• TPO number: Veteran Tree No.:VT BHH011
• Grid Ref: TQ 41753 94533
  
• Accessibility: Private - permission required to view
• Nominator: Ron Cullum
• Date Entered: 01 Mar 2007
• Photograph©Date taken:

Reason for nomination:

• "This is a magnificent specimen of the wonderful Oak family and it has a beautiful shape, almost triangular . Back bone of British history. Henry VIII original navy, everlasting, furniture and housing. Plays host to more than 450 birds and insects. 100% more than any other tree." Ron Cullum

Remarks & Tree condition:

• This tree stands in a private garden, but can be seen from Linder's Field LNR and land at North Farm, Buckhurst Hill. This Oak once stood in "Plucketts Wood" an extensive area of ancient wood. By 1850 Plucketts Wood had been split in two with a large section lost probably from the construction of the railway. This can be clearly seen on the Tithe Map of Loughton for that date which shows the wood split into two parts - Plucketts Wood and Little Plucketts. It is not known exactly when the last fragment of Little Plucketts Wood was destroyed for the construction of housing on Little Plucketts Way, but it is believed to have occurred between 1920 and 1930. What is certain is that, apart from a few ancient trees surviving in gardens and Linder's Field LNR all traces of the old wood are gone.