{"id":191,"date":"2012-01-23T23:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wyrefarmed.artsrainbow.com\/2012\/01\/23\/the-demise-of-the-mawley-oak\/"},"modified":"2012-01-23T23:52:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T23:52:00","slug":"the-demise-of-the-mawley-oak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/2012\/01\/23\/the-demise-of-the-mawley-oak\/","title":{"rendered":"The Demise of the Mawley Oak"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post was suggested and facilitated by Michael Billings<\/b> from an article he sent me – http:\/\/wbrc.org.uk\/worcrecd\/Issue12\/mawley.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

In the article BM Stephens<\/b> wrote –
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” The mighty Mawley Oak collapsed at about 9.00am, Monday, 29th October, 2001, after a long period of increasing weakness. There had been some strong SW winds for several days preceding but, on this morning, not exceptional, W to NW, about force 5 perhaps gusting 6. Possibly the change of wind direction was significant and the extra strain more than the tortured trunk could stand. Witnesses, at the garage opposite, heard a loud crack and down it came, “Just like that!” narrowly missing the main road.”<\/i>
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\nMany who attended the school remember this landmark tree.
\nIt’s statistics were –
\nThe Mawley Oak <\/b>Estimated age 240 years,  Height 90 feet Girth breast height 24 feet Max. spread of canopy 130 feet.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This tree is situated near the junction of the B4202 road from Clows Top<\/b> and the A4117 road from Far Forest<\/b> to Cleobury Mortimer. <\/b> The bark was extremely crevassed to the extent that it held the nest of a wren and one small branch was rotten and a colony of honey bees were flying in and out of a hole in it. Dr. Norman Hickin <\/b>described the Mawley Oak in his book The Natural History of an English Forest<\/b> (Hutchinson 1971 page 6), so it’s certainly a renowned and ancient tree.<\/span><\/p>\n


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This post was suggested and facilitated by Michael Billings from an article he sent me – http:\/\/wbrc.org.uk\/worcrecd\/Issue12\/mawley.htm In the article BM Stephens wrote – ” The mighty Mawley Oak collapsed at about 9.00am, Monday, 29th October, 2001, after a long period of increasing weakness. There … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}