Walking and mapping the trees

I seem to have spent much of the past week out walking in one place or another!! Some walks have been local, some not! Some have been along countryside paths, others have been around Loughborough town centre! All of them have been enjoyable!

I’ve just been alerted to a lovely website that allows you to log and share the position of important (in the sense of being old or notable for some reason) trees! I’ve posted about trees before ! I absolutely love them! So, to find a website where I can pinpoint specific trees, or groups of trees to go and see makes me happy!

A few snaps of some trees I spotted along the Grantham Canal, close-ish to Belvoir Castle last weekend.

Some photos from last week’s visit to Swithland Wood.

 

On a walk around Garendon Park earlier this week, someone pointed out a sweet chestnut tree to me, and it’s on the map, as are many of the other trees on the estate!!

The sweet chestnut tree

 

The lovely Cedar of Lebanon, which is on the university campus, and would have been very close to Burleigh Hall, is also on the map.

The Isaac Newton tree on the university campus is not on the map though, ut maybe that's because it is still fairly new?

One that I didn’t see on the map, however, which I would have expected to, is one that on the rather more common online map is called The Great Oak Tree, and is off the footpath that goes through Woodthorpe, and then crosses the fields to come out just below Beaumanor Hall.

 

How wonderful, that our local Booth Wood has now been designated as a local nature reserve!

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