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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21975, 26 December 1936, Page 5

A few hundred feet from the transmitter building of the Empire broadcasting station on Borough Hill at Daventry. England, is an old oak tree, known locally as the “Dane Tree.” Local tradition asserts that, under this tree, a treaty was concluded \.:th the invading Danes, but if such a treaty was ever signed, the tree then living muist have been a much earlier one. as that to be seen to-day is only a few hundred years old. Another popular belief, according to one writer, was that the. tree “marks the exact centre of England, and there young men and maidens still resort to record their vows.” It is said, too—probably as a result of the local contraction of the name “Daventry” to “Daintry”—that the tree gave the town its name, but this explanation receives no support from recondite authority.