A fathoms ;oak tree in the churchyard of iruf-Mord, near Dulverton, Somerset, believed to be nearly 1,000 .rears old, is showing signs of decay, and the church council. n\ the advice of a. sub-committee which :cccntly met under the trees, is arranging or the limbs to be supported in order to '.reserve its beauty ns long as possible. The iree, of which mention was made in Queen Elizabeth's time, is 19ft in eircume: en.ee at the base. Brush ford, at, the Domesday survey, was held by Roger He Cnrwlle, "whose service for liis_ Exmoor lands was the hanging on a certain forked oak. all the red (leer that died of murrain in Exmoor forest, and it is possible this oak was the tree indicated.
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Evening Star, Issue 19952, 23 August 1928, Page 9
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