102 THE OAK TREE IN ESSEX.
Fig. 10.—Oak at Thorihgton Hall.
(Circumference, 31 feet. Photograph, J. C. Shenstone.)
Arthur Young observes, "Sir John Barrington possesses in the
Hatfield Forest a very beautiful oak, for which a timber merchant
offered one hundred guineas. Near it is the ruin of a most vener-
Fig. 11.—Original Hatfield Broad Oak.
(From Youngs "Agriculture" 1813.)