Great Saling
Great Saling is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of The Salings,[1] in the Braintree district of the English county of Essex. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 282.[2] It is near the town of Braintree. The hamlet of Blake End was part of the parish.
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White Hart in Great Saling
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.[3][4][5]
The parish church is dedicated to St James, and is in the Diocese of Chelmsford. It is Grade II* listed.[6]
- The Great Saling elm
See also
References
- "The Salings". Mapit. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
- "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
- Hanson, M. W. (1990). Essex elm. London: Essex Field Club. ISBN 978-0-905637-15-0.
- R. H. Richens, Elm (Cambridge 1983), p.243
- 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.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- Historic England. "Church of St James (1147381)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
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