Crawley Elm

View of the Crawley elm standing at the side of a road going through the village. Facing the viewer is an opening in the trunk, shaped like a doorway and kept closed by a rough-hewn door. The author describes this tree as follows:

This aged tree stands in the village of Crawley, on the high road from London to Brighton. It is a well- known object to all who are in the habit of travelling that way, and arrests the eye of the stranger at once by its tall and straight stem, which ascends to the height of seventy feet, and by the fantastic ruggedness of its wildly-spreading roots. Its trunk is perforated to the very top, measuring sixty-one feet in circumference at the ground, and thirty-five feet round the inside, at two feet from the base.