Chestnut - Notable Chestnut Trees

Notable Chestnut Trees

  • Chestnut Tree of One Hundred Horses on Mount Etna, 57.9 m (190 ft) circumference in 1780, (64-meter circumference in 1883)
  • Tortworth Chestnut. 15.8-meter (52 ft) circumference in 1776, when it was described as "the largest tree in England"
  • Sacred Chestnut of Istan, 46-foot (14 m) circumference, estimated to be between 800 and 1,000 years old.

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