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. The population of the civi parish at the 2011 Census was 282.[1] It is near the town of Braintree. The hamlet of Blake End is part of the parish.

The village had 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.[2][3][4]

The parish church is dedicated to St James, and is in the Diocese of Chelmsford. It is Grade II* listed.[5]

See also

The Hundred Parishes

References

  1. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  2. ↑ Hanson, M. W. (1990). Essex elm. London: Essex Field Club. ISBN 978-0-905637-15-0.
  3. ↑ R. H. Richens, Elm (Cambridge 1983), p.243
  4. ↑ 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) "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2015-02-05.
  5. ↑ Historic England. "Church of St James (1147381)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 March 2016.

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


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