Whiteleaved Oak
| Whiteleaved Oak | |
| Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire | |
|---|---|
 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]
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