Is any of God’s creations nobler than the oak tree? Its majestic boughs inspired the pens of Wordsworth and Whitman and the brushes of Monet and Corot. Its wood has kept Old Ironsides afloat and ...

The tree, called the ‘Guy Fawkes Oak’ due to its proximity to the Whitewebbs House where the Gunpowder Plot was planned, is believed to have been among the biggest 100 of London's 600,000 oak ...

“I can’t believe this has happened,” he said. “This is a loss of a national treasure.” The tree is a pedunculate oak (Quercus robur) with a girth of 6.1m, and it is officially verified ...