The Old Man of Calke, Dragon Tree and the Walking Tree

ellenripley (76)in Pinmapple • last year

Calke Abbey is a Grade I listed country house near Ticknall, Derbyshire, England. It is maintained by the National Trust.

We've visited before but never found the old oak tree which is affectionately called the 'Old Man of Caulke', until today.

The tree is over 1,200 years old. Something that's older than me! As the tree is so old there is fencing around it to stop people from climbing on it.

When a tree dies and falls down they leave it in place so it will be home to many insects. This is called the 'dragon tree'.

There’s also a few ‘walking trees' that have spread by their branches touching the ground, and reseeding a new tree.

There are many walks in the park, as there are 600 acres to explore, so you can see many weird and wonderful trees.

#neoxian #nature #creativecoin #palnet #photography

last year in Pinmapple by ellenripley (76)

$14.22

Sort:

Trending

[-]

pinmapple (80) last year

Hiya, @lizanomadsoul here, just swinging by to let you know that this post made it into our Honorable Mentions in Daily Travel Digest #1803.

Your post has been manually curated by the @pinmapple team. If you like what we're doing, please drop by to check out all the rest of today's great posts and consider supporting other authors like yourself and us so we can keep the project going!

Become part of our travel community:

$0.03

1 vote

[-]

ellenripley (76) last year

Thank you very much @lizanomadsoul and @pinmapple. Much appreciated. 💖

$0.00

[-]

lizanomadsoul (73) last year

You are very welcome @ellenripley :)

$0.00

[-]

pinmapple (80) last year

Congratulations, your post has been added to Pinmapple! 🎉🥳🍍

Did you know you have your own profile map?
And every post has their own map too!

Want to have your post on the map too?

Go to Pinmapple
Click the get code button
Click on the map where your post should be (zoom in if needed)
Copy and paste the generated code in your post (Hive only)
Congrats, your post is now on the map!

$0.00

[-]

ellenripley (76) last year

Thank you!

$0.00

[-]

hivebuzz (74) last year

Congratulations @ellenripley! You have completed the following achievement on the Hive blockchain And have been rewarded with New badge(s)

You have been a buzzy bee and published a post every day of the week.

_{You can view your badges on your board and compare yourself to others in the Ranking}
_{If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word STOP}

Check out our last posts: