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Celebrating our trees Trees are the anchor, the heroes, of the natural world. Solid and dependable they shape our favourite places and help to ground us. In recent times, they’ve come to represent the stoic support so many of us have found in nature. You’ll find some wonderful examples of ancient trees on the Hampshire estates cared for by the National Trust, which at this time of year are full of autumn colour. Here, we reveal some favourites, and what makes them so special. The Vyne, near Basingstoke At over 650 years old the 100 Guinea Oak is so old it would have witnessed Henry VIII’s huge royal processions when he visited in the 1530s. Corina Dawson, area ranger: “This ancient veteran tree owes its life to William John Chute who owned The Vyne in the 19th-century. Legend has it that he refused to sell it to an Admiralty agent looking for timber before the Battle of Trafalgar.
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