Great Saling
| Great Saling | |
| Essex | |
|---|---|
 White Hart in Great Saling | |
| Location | |
| Location: | 51°54’13"N, -0°28’2"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 282 (2011) |
| Post town: | Braintree |
| Postcode: | CM7 |
| Dialling code: | 01371 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Braintree |
Great Saling is a village and parish in the Hinckford hundred of Essex. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 282.[1] It is near the town of Braintree. The hamlet of Blake End is part of the parish.
The village had on its green what was reputed to be the largest elm tree in England. With a girth of 22 feet 6 inches and a height of 130 feet, the elm was identified by the botanist R. H. Richens as an Ulmus × hollandica hybrid, before it succumbed to Dutch Elm Disease in the 1970s.[2][3][4]
The parish church is dedicated to St James, and is in the Diocese of Chelmsford. It is Grade-II* listed.[5]
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The Great Saling elm
References
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Great Saling) |
- ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics.. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11123955&c=Great+Saling&d=16&e=62&g=6423005&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1472925143328&enc=1. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
- ↑ Hanson, M. W. (1990). Essex elm. London: Essex Field Club. ISBN 978-0-905637-15-0.
- ↑ R. H. Richens, Elm (Cambridge 1983), p.243
- ↑ Photograph of the Great Saling elm: Plate 402 in Elwes & Henry's Trees of Great Britain & Ireland, Vol. VII, pp 1848-1929; private publication, Edinburgh (1913) "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303174627/http://fax.libs.uga.edu/QK488xE4/1f/trees_of_britain_and_ireland_vol_7.pdf. Retrieved 2015-02-05.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1147381: Church of St James
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