Whiteleaved Oak

From Wikishire
Jump to: navigation, search
Whiteleaved Oak
Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire
Whiteleaved Oak and Ragged Stone Hill - geograph.org.uk - 1628659.jpg
Whiteleaved Oak and Raggedstone Hill
Location
Grid reference: SO760359
Location: 52°1’16"N, 2°21’4"W
Data
Postcode: HR8
Local Government
Council: Herefordshire

Whiteleaved Oak is a hamlet overspreading the point where three counties meet: Herefordshire, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire. The hamlet sits in a valley at the southern end of the Malvern Hills between Raggedstone Hill and Chase End Hill.

Name

In 1584 Henry Dingley, a verderer of Malvern Chase, wrote an account of a perambulation of the chase boundaries. Dingley noted that near the southernmost boundary of the chase grew "...a geate Oake caulled the white leved Oake [which] bereth white leaves."[1]

In The forest and chace of Malvern, its ancient & present state: with notices of the most remarkable old trees remaining within its confines (1877) Edwin Lees wrote:

The "White-leaved Oak" valley between the Ragged-stone and Keysend-hills, keeps in its name the memory of an oak that existed there within memory, whose leaves being variegated with white blotches, caused it to be considered a curiosity and prodigy.[2]

Outside links

Commons-logo.svg
("Wikimedia Commons" has material
about Whiteleaved Oak)

References

  1. Smith, Brian S.: 'A History of Malvern' (Leicester University Press, 1964) pages 27, 29 ISBN 0-904387-31-3
  2. Lees, Edwin: 'The forest and chace of Malvern, its ancient & present state: with notices of the most remarkable old trees remaining within its confines' (Herald Office 1877)