Great Saling

White Hart in Great Saling

Great Saling is a village and a civil parish in the Braintree district of the English county of Essex. It is near the town of Braintree. Great Saling has a place of worship.

Landmarks

The village was famous for having on its green what was reputed to be the largest elm tree in England. With a girth of 22 feet 6 inches and a height of 40 metres, the elm was identified by the botanist R. H. Richens as an Ulmus × hollandica hybrid, before it succumbed to Dutch Elm Disease in the 1970s.[1][2]

See also

The Hundred Parishes

References

  1. ↑ R. H. Richens, Elm (Cambridge 1983), p.243
  2. ↑ Photograph of the Great Saling elm: Plate 402 in Elwes & Henry's Trees of Great Britain & Ireland, Vol. VII, pp 1848-1929; private publication, Edinburgh (1913)

Coordinates: 51°54′N 0°28′E / 51.900°N 0.467°E