Savernake Forest · Marlborough
Hunt the Big Belly Oak
Track down one of Britain's oldest and fattest oak trees, hiding in an ancient forest.
- ⏱ 35 min
- 💷 £0
- 🥾 Medium
Savernake Forest has thousands of ancient trees, but the Big Belly Oak might be the strangest — a thousand-year-old sessile oak with a girth of over 11 metres, growing right by the roadside. Find it among the crowd.
What you’ll do
- 1Get into the forest
- 2Look roadside
- 3Prove it
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Photo: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0
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