Has anyone else noticed the little heart shaped copse next to the M6 southbound after Tebay?

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1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/cumbria/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8294000/8294475.stm

   > Mystery of the heart-shaped wood

   >There are lots of tales about its origins. Some say it was planted as a memorial to a young soldier killed in World War I, others say it was the farmer’s way of expressing his love for his wife.

   > One tale has it that it is the place where two ill-fated lovers met for the final time. They were the offspring of two local farming families who forbade them from their affair, refusing to let them marry.

   >However the truth behind the wood is not quite as romantic.

   >When the farm that owns the land the wood stands on was bought by Hilary Wilson’s family, they were told the wood was a Victorian plantation.

   >But having also been told so many tales about its origins, Hilary decided to investigate further.

   >”The shape of the wood is also easy to explain” says Hilary, “It’s the way the trees are grown that make it look heart-shaped”.

   >The trees grow between two walls, in a wedge-shaped piece of land making it look a bit like a heart.

2. There’s a cock wood on the M74 https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/s/AGUqji4qdV

3. This is a bush to complement the treenis surely?

4. Misread the title.

5. No but I always noticed the knob shaped forest on the way up to Glasgow

6. I drove past this last year, Waze had it labelled on the map as “Heart Wood”!

7. My favourite stretch of the M6. I live in Kendal so it’s just up the road.

8. Yeah it’s famous..

9. If your gonna post the country’s muff you should really tag it nsfw

10. Tebay? Is that how Peter Kay pronounces EBay?

11. Ahh the pies at Tebay services….

12. That’s nothing compared to the M74 penis tree….

13. Fanny wood. Matches the cock one in Scotland

14. Much nicer than the ones Nazis planted back in the 30s and 40s that nobody noticed until much later – huge Swastikas!

    Flying over one of those must have been like… “uhmmm, what’s that?”

15. Ha ha, read that as “corpse!

16. As a teenager in the 90’s I thought it looked like a lady garden from the evidence in magazines found by the brook.

    Always gives me a chuckle nowadays as I pass.

17. Wasn’t Heart Shaped Copse a hit for Nirvana?

18. The Heart of Westmorland

19. Least it wasn’t this

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_swastika

20. yes, and further North up the M6 in the Scottish Borders there’s a wood that’s shaped like a cock and balls.

21. Yeah, it’s one of my favourite Nirvana tracks.

22. That is adorable. Hugsies.