Monster Oak in North Lakes

[Big J]

Came across this monster of an Oak near Hesket New Market whilst walking at the weekend:

 

 

It stands alone in the middle of a field is possibly the largest Oak I've seen anywhere this far north. My wife is sat on it there, and I very roughly guessed it at about 9ft in diameter (though it's a little narrower when viewed from the side of the tree).

 

Either way, had a little climb up to the crutch and marvelled at it for a good 10 minutes.

 

It's well worth a trip out to as Hesket Newmarket has Britain's only co-op pub with it's own brewery and the ale is stunning!

 

Old Crown Pub - Hesket Newmarket Cumbria - Britain's first co-operatively owned pub

 

Jonathan

[Joe Loggs]

Yea that's a big boy nice find, we should start a thread specifically for large oaks.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

wicked! and yeah the big oak thread! cool idea! we will have to have a big beech thread too!

[RobRainford]

I know one oak that will qualify for the big oak thread

 

Tony with this one here, do you reckon we've got a dual colonisation? I.e. base rotter like dryadeus with fistulina in the higher sections? Looking at the burring beginning almost level it seems that way.

 

That's how I see it, what do you think?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I see nutting dude!

[born2trot]

Great idea having a monster tree thread , i seen a monster beech in Huntly today i'll definetely go back and get some pics

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I know one oak that will qualify for the big oak thread

 

Tony with this one here, do you reckon we've got a dual colonisation? I.e. base rotter like dryadeus with fistulina in the higher sections? Looking at the burring beginning almost level it seems that way.

 

That's how I see it, what do you think?

 

aargh you mean the one from the OP!

 

grifola possibly at play rather than dryadeus in this case, though not 100%, theres no butress seperations and the root compensation is lower than most dryadeus cases

[RobRainford]

aargh you mean the one from the OP!

 

grifola possibly at play rather than dryadeus in this case, though not 100%, theres no butress seperations and the root compensation is lower than most dryadeus cases

 

Did I make you think then?

 

I get ya. Dryadeus was just an example. I thought Grifola was something to do with it in this case but wasn't sure.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Did I make you think then?

 

I get ya. Dryadeus was just an example. I thought Grifola was something to do with it in this case but wasn't sure.

 

pants on fire?

[Big J]

I won't pretend that I know much about what you two are on about, but it really was an exceptional tree from our point of view. As soon as I saw it in the distance, I could tell it was a monster.

 

What was nice was that there was no indication that it was in decline - good, full crown with no die back, no visible to pockets and even some interesting fusing of secondary stems (over 3ft in diameter) a little higher up the tree.

 

My guess on age is high 300s, early 400s of years old?