The Pollard Oak
Towneley Park, Burnley, Lancashire
The Pollard Oak is the oldest tree in Burnley and probably Lancashire. With a girth of 32 feet (9.75 metres) it makes it over 400 years old.
It would have been a young tree in the reign of the first Queen Elizabeth I (1558) and the time of the gun powder plot of 1605.
Its life may have been prolonged by the cutting of the top branches (pollarding) in the past. This is how it derived its name.
Although it is on the outskirts of a woodland access to it is very difficult, with overhanging trees to contend with.
The Pollard Oak
Towneley Park, Burnley, Lancashire
The Pollard Oak is the oldest tree in Burnley and probably Lancashire. With a girth of 32 feet (9.75 metres) it makes it over 400 years old.
It would have been a young tree in the reign of the first Queen Elizabeth I (1558) and the time of the gun powder plot of 1605.
Its life may have been prolonged by the cutting of the top branches (pollarding) in the past. This is how it derived its name.
Although it is on the outskirts of a woodland access to it is very difficult, with overhanging trees to contend with.