Category: Roadside Trees

Those large mature trees we see by the roadsides are relics from an age when horse drawn carts and carriages used the roads, an age before Mr Edgar Purnell Hooley discovered tarmac in 1901. Some were significant waymarking trees on the junctions of the old routes. Some are the remains of lines of trees on field boundaries that acted as windbreaks. Whatever their origin, I doubt they will be replaced when they are gone so a few images of them are all that will remain.