Show famous trees tree diminishing our historic oaks are with every great storm diminishing ID number Damo reys oak in Dorset Dorbet shire 2000 years old disappeared from this cause causa in 1703 wallaces oak at Ell ellerslie Ellers ersIle lle was ears old when it was blown blo down some fifty years ago IV we have still however the cowthorpe bowthorpe Cow thorpe oak near wetherby in yorkshire estimated to be over 1000 years old and william the conquerors oak in windsor groat great park has attained the ripe age ot of 1200 years perhaps the finest oaks of 0 great antiquity in the land are to be found in the duk du kerles eries about halt it a mile from welbeck abbey Is grees dale oak credited with 1500 summers and now a mere ruin sustained by props through its hollow bollow interior a coach and four has been driven london dally daily chronicle |