Stanmore Country Park Nature Trail
Post 14: Here we cross one of the ancient hedge lines. The oak to the left is about 250 years old, and a line of similarly large oaks can be seen behind it standing on a raised earth bank. The tree on the right is a hornbeam Carpinus betulus. Hornbeam wood is extremely hard and used to be used for gear wheels, for example in clock mechanisms.

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