Image ID: 21848

The Seven Sisters

Courtesy of Mansfield Library

Welbeck Park
Worksop
England

Caption reads: Plate III. is a view of another remarkable ancient oak near the Duchess's flower-garden, called the Seven Sisters, from its having had seven stems or trunks issuing out of one stool in a perpendicular direction ; they are now reduced to six. Its height is 88 feet 7 inches; the circumference at the bottom is 30 feet; at two yards, taking in the stems, 30 feet 4 inches. The largest stem at two yards is 12 feet, 10 inches in circumference; another at the same distance from its bottom is 11 feet 7 inches in. circumference; one 9 feet 10 inches, and the smallest 5 feet 3 inches, in circumference.

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