"If you want to know a little bit
about what was happening in England at each of
the times, just click on the picture of the tree!
To find out more about oak trees,
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Activity
Minchenden Oak Gardens, Enfield
Age-old
Oak
The
oak tree in Minchenden
Oak Gardens may
be as much as eight
hundred years old!
Imagine
all the changes
it has seen in that
time - all the different
people who may have
met under it all
the time it was
growing, and all
the different conversations
it may have overheard.
For
each
of
the
periods
of
time
below,
when
the
Minchenden
Oak
would
have
been
growing
bigger
and
finally
getting
old,
imagine
that
you
are
living
in
that
time
and
have
met
a
friend
beneath
the
tree.
Describe
what
you
can
see,
and
talk
about
what
you
have
been
doing
by
typing
into
the
boxes.
When
you
have
finished
for
each
time,
print
your
page!
In
1200
the Minchenden
Oak would
have been
a young
tree,
struggling
to survive,
one of
many thousands
in the
great
forest
of Middlesex.
Perhaps
it was
near to
one of
the forest
tracks
leading
to London.
Standing
beneath
the tree,
I can
see:
What
I will
say to
my friend:
By
1500
the Minchenden
Oak would
have been
a mature
tree.
What do
you think
the countryside
would
have been
like at
that time?
Standing
beneath
the tree,
I can
see:
What
I will
say to
my friend:
By
1800
the Minchenden
Oak was
in the
grounds
of the
Minchenden
Estate,
one of
the great
estates
in the
area and
owned
by the
Duke of
Chandos.
At this
time,
the Minchenden
Oak was
believed
to be
the largest
tree in
England.
Standing
beneath
the tree,
I can
see:
What
I will
say to
my friend:
Today,
the Minchenden
Oak forms
part of
Minchenden
Oak Gardens,
which
was formed
in 1934
as a Garden
of Remembrance.
