Tutbury Wych Elm

A venerable elm tree stands in a sloping landscape opening the view to a distant horizon. This tree is described as follows by the author: 

The Tutbury wych-elm is one of the most remarkable specimens of the sort in the kingdom, and is thus mentioned by Shaw, in his History of Staffordshire:^[1] —“In the road leading from 
Tutbury to Rolleston is a very large and beautiful wych-elm, the bole of which is remarkably straight, thick and lofty; having eight noble branches, the size of common trees, which spread their umbrageous foliage luxuriantly around, forming a magnificent and graceful feature, both in the near and distant prospect. This, if not at present, will, in a few years, be as great a curiosity in the vegetable world, as the famous Wych-Elm at Field, described by Doctor Plot.”

The trunk of this tree is twelve feet long, and sixteen fect nine inches in circumference, at the height of five feet from the ground; seven feet higher, it divides into the “eight noble branches,” which are nearly fifty feet high and extend between forty and fifty feet from the centre of the tree, which contains six hundred and eighty-nine cubic feet of timber.