Counting Pennies
Arteth counts coins that have been hammered into the trunk of a fallen tree - she found five or six trees like this over the week. I've not seen this elsewhere.
Wikipedia's page on Wish Trees mention Penrith, which is near Keswick, so this could be a local tradition, but it's worth bearing in mind that Keswick gets a lot of foreign tourists - for all I know, this could have been done by people from Hungary, Japan or London.
Update: This page has examples in Yorkshire and Derbyshire, so it does seem to be a tradition in northern England.
Arteth's images are here in Coins In Trees
Counting Pennies
Arteth counts coins that have been hammered into the trunk of a fallen tree - she found five or six trees like this over the week. I've not seen this elsewhere.
Wikipedia's page on Wish Trees mention Penrith, which is near Keswick, so this could be a local tradition, but it's worth bearing in mind that Keswick gets a lot of foreign tourists - for all I know, this could have been done by people from Hungary, Japan or London.
Update: This page has examples in Yorkshire and Derbyshire, so it does seem to be a tradition in northern England.
Arteth's images are here in Coins In Trees