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oaks

A menacing Welsh tale about an evil oak tree….

Oct 31, 2024

anniversaries, travel

dolgellau, ghosts, Gwynedd, Halloween, howell sele, murder, nannau park, nannau woods, oaks, Owain Glyn Dwr, the strangling oak, trees, Vaughans, Wales

Well, Hallowe’en is nigh, a time when we like to shiver and squeal, so here is a dark legend to set those shivers and squeals in motion. It happened at the end of the 14th/beginning of the 15th century among the dense trees of Nannau Park near Dolgelly/Dolgellau, the county town of Merionethshire (now Gwynedd).…
THE ANCIENT TREES OF GREENWICH PALACE HUNTING GROUNDS

Feb 23, 2021

anniversaries, buildings, culture

Anne Boleyn, Anne Mowbray, Anne Neville, Charles II, chestnuts, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth Oak, Elizabeth Wydeville, Greenwich Palace, Henry VIII, Humphrey of Gloucester, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, Mary of York, oaks, Placentia Palace, Richard III, royal hunting estates, trees

Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkypus.com THE ANCIENT OAK TREE KNOWN AS THE ‘ELIZABETH’ OAK. With thanks to Spitalfieldlife for this photo. In the words of Sir John Howard, Duke of Norfolk, Richard III’s loyal friend, I get as ‘wode as a Wilde bullok‘ when I read yet another tedious reference to Henry VIII…