"Kyre Park.—Measure of oak trees in Woodpatch grove made by John W. Openshaw, November 1904. The tape girths are over bark taken at 5 feet. The quarter-girth is the middle of first length taken under bark. Eleven trees removed (1883, 1887, 1897) contained 2990 feet, average 272 feet. Ninety-seven trees now standing contain 38,365 feet, growing on 5 acres, 2 roods, 19 poles of land; an average of 395% feet per tree. A hundred and eight trees contained 41,365 cubic feet, an average of 383 feet per tree. There remain distinct traces of sixty and indistinct traces of ten trees having been removed, including the eleven referred to above.”
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There is an oak of remarkable size in another part of the Kyre estate called the
Hannings, growing on high ground exposed to the north, in a rough pasture
overgrown with trees, which no doubt have drawn it up in youth. It is 113 feet
in total height, with a trunk nearly straight to about go feet high, where the head
begins, and 15 feet 10 inches in girth. Mr. Openshaw and I estimated its contents
as follows :—
1st length 18 feet by 48 inches = 288 feet. 2nd. 20 40 = 222 3rd 50 24 = 200 710 feet.
£100 was refused for this tree a few years ago.
There is also in the deer park a circle with a diameter of fifty yards formed by
ten (formerly twelve) oaks of great age and very spreading in habit, and a very
