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Dist:0.3km north<br/>One of the many black-and-white buildings hereabout.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Also called "Great Oak", this huge tree has a girth at chest height of 9m 17cm, indicating it is about 900 years old. Like all very old oaks, it is becoming 'stag-headed' and has a hollow trunk (which a small person can climb inside, see [[1232115]]). A forest in this area was recorded in the Domesday Book (1086), and this may be its last surviving tree. The oak itself was a landmark on maps dated 1650.
©John Palmer
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Ancient oaks are usually hollow, and a small person can easily climb inside this one. The hollow interior is not man-made, it is actually caused by fungi, the most invasive of which is called the "poor man's Beefsteak" (Fistulina hepatica) whose fruiting bodies are sometimes seen growing on the bark of the tree during the Autumn.
©John Palmer
Dist:0.5km north<br/>A small hamlet, between Eardisley and Whitney.
©Roger Cornfoot
Dist:0.5km north<br/>
©Roger Cornfoot
Dist:0.5km north<br/>
©Roger Cornfoot
Dist:0.5km north<br/>
©Roger Cornfoot
Dist:0.6km north<br/>
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.8km west<br/>A hamlet with a name possibly referring to its past economy derived from woodland activity.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.8km west<br/>
©Roger Cornfoot
Dist:0.8km west<br/>Passes through an idyllic garden setting.
©Roger Cornfoot
Dist:0.8km north<br/>
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.9km northwest<br/>
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:1.0km north<br/>The local name for a stream, this naturalistic scene forms part of a garden in Lower Welsom.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:1.1km southwest<br/>
©Roger Cornfoot

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