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Nov 22, 2009 · Billy is knotty and gnarled, an oak with an extraordinary 11.6 metre girth, named after an estate manager to Sir John Strangways, a leading Royalist, who owned the Melbury Park estate near...
Sep 20, 2013 · The tree has acquired the unusual name of Billy Wilkins. Nobody is exactly sure why, although it was very likely someone who lived and worked on the estate. One story, which is unsubstantiated, was that Wilkins was a bailiff on the estate, and was sent to warn his master, Sir John Strangeways (the owner, and a Royalist sympathiser) that ...
In William Harrison Ainsworth’s historical novel, Boscobel (1871), Billy Wilkins is a landmark interconnected with the narrative of another ancient tree, the ‘Royal Oak’ in Boscobel, the tree that Charles II used for refuge from his captors: Melbury Park ... contained some noble old oaks.
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With names like Billy Wilkins, the Posy Tree and Judge Wyndham’s Oak, Dorset’s ancient trees are amongst its most precious living treasures. At least two pre-date Christianity, a handful are a direct genetic link to the great ‘wildwood’ of our Neolithic ancestors, one is the widest oak in the country.
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This tree is called "Billy Wilkins". A fine ancient oak with a full crown and long, bulbous bole. Dorset's largest oak. The girth measurement was taken from the Ancient Tree Inventory. Billy Wilkins grows on private land and is not visible from public access. I do not know it's location within the park.
Trees in Nineteenth-Century English Fiction: The Silvicultural Novel identifies the picturesque thinker William Gilpin as a significant influence in this literary and environmental tradition.
