Published:
10:30 AM December 20, 2020
Updated:
11:13 AM December 20, 2020
Hethel Old Thorn is a Norfolk Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve - the smallest in the UK
- Credit: Rowan Mantell
Some of the most remarkable trees in Norfolk range from a prehistoric fenland bog oak to the first cricket bat willow, and are linked with people from Pocahontas to Hitler
Smallest
Hethel Old Thorn is said to the be smallest nature reserve in the UK. The hawthorn bush, aka Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s Hethel Old Thorn reserve, can be reached by a public footpath beside ancient Hethel church.
Oldest
A sweet chestnut tree in Holt Hall woods is believed to have begun growing before the Norman Conquest, making it more than 1,000 years old. In Hockering Wood some of the lime trees of the third largest lime wood in Britain might be even older.