Stately home estate gets the measure of champion trees

WITH crisp winter days there is no better time to take in the beautiful landscape of a National Trust property, especially when visitors could spot a recently discovered Yorkshire champion tree.
By The Newsroom
Published 23rd Dec 2013, 00:01 BST

There are many beautiful trees at Beningbrough, near York, but some have a statistical significance that until now has gone unnoticed.

Gardener, Tom Longridge, said: “I found out about ‘champion trees’ some time ago: the tallest and largest trees for each species in the country. The Tree Register is the charity that keeps the database of such records.”

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While browsing through the register he decided some of the Beningbrough trees could be in with a chance.

A Cockscomb Beech in the American Garden is one of the larger trees on the property and results came back to confirm the Cockscomb Beech is a Yorkshire Champion for girth.

However it transpires there is more than one Yorkshire champion at Beningbrough. The largest of the cherries on the Cherry Lawn is a Yorkshire champion for girth, the whitebeam in the playground is a Yorkshire champion for height and the Hungarian oak near the estate yard is a Yorkshire champion for height and girth.

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