Finally safe to post this after the Sycamore Gap conviction!
Took me a minute to work out that girth is a term for circumference and not diameter. I can imagine our culture evolving very differently in these Isles if we were dwarfed by 6m diameter chode gods.
There’s a “your mum” joke in there somewhere.
I sometimes wonder what it might have looked like on our island, before widespread deforestation and conversion to agricultural land. Whenever I’m in a bit of ancient woodland I like to find a spot where there are no people or human made things in view and sit and think about most of the country looking like that.
Crazy that Northumberland, one of the biggest and least populated counties in the country, has so few!
[ *Toby Carvery enters the chat* ]
Find girthy oaks in your area
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You can thank the Jay for that 🙂 They adore acorns and stash them and basically caused the expansion of oak trees post the ice age as a bit like squirrels they sometimes forget their stash. More interestingly is that oak trees encourage this behaviour, over to Steve Mold in the studio! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPCL9kj7_bU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPCL9kj7_bU)
Why nothing in east Yorkshire?
Any data for Wales?
The map’s wrong
I am suprised how many remain around the Birmingham/black country area
I’ve got a 6 metre trunk…*around*
Girth
Runnymede is definitely next on my oak adventure list!
That’s a low number, which is simultaneously surprising and not surprising.
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Nothing quite like some girthy wood!
Thank you u/ThatchersDirtyTaint!
Finally safe to post this after the Sycamore Gap conviction!
Took me a minute to work out that girth is a term for circumference and not diameter. I can imagine our culture evolving very differently in these Isles if we were dwarfed by 6m diameter chode gods.
There’s a “your mum” joke in there somewhere.
I sometimes wonder what it might have looked like on our island, before widespread deforestation and conversion to agricultural land. Whenever I’m in a bit of ancient woodland I like to find a spot where there are no people or human made things in view and sit and think about most of the country looking like that.
Shropshire and Worcs getting some mad results
More information [here](https://dps007.plants.ox.ac.uk/bol/ancientoaksofengland), if you like oaks.
Hur, hur….. girth.
Sauce?
You can check the ones near you here:
https://ati.woodlandtrust.org.uk/tree-search/
No mans land in South Yorkshire
Crazy that Northumberland, one of the biggest and least populated counties in the country, has so few!
[ *Toby Carvery enters the chat* ]
Find girthy oaks in your area
<VALUE>
You can thank the Jay for that 🙂 They adore acorns and stash them and basically caused the expansion of oak trees post the ice age as a bit like squirrels they sometimes forget their stash. More interestingly is that oak trees encourage this behaviour, over to Steve Mold in the studio! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPCL9kj7_bU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPCL9kj7_bU)
Why nothing in east Yorkshire?
Any data for Wales?
The map’s wrong
I am suprised how many remain around the Birmingham/black country area
I’ve got a 6 metre trunk…*around*
Girth
Runnymede is definitely next on my oak adventure list!
That’s a low number, which is simultaneously surprising and not surprising.
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