Big beech tree

On a previous visit to Claremont we noticed and snapped, using what would now be considered an antique telephone, a big beech tree. See reference 1.

So on this last visit, we visited the tree again to make sure that it was still there, which it was, taking this rather superior snap with the Lumia.

The tree was one of a pair, one each side of a path leading up to the Belvedere, with the fence marking the boundary between the private school and the national trust parts of what was the Claremont estate. The house in the private school part is occasionally open to the public and is one of the better examples of the Palladian art in the this country. An art which included making servants and tradesmen as invisible as was possible, consistent with their duties. A house which included a complicated bath which was intended to help with the nasty skin condition of its first owner, Clive of India.

Oddly, the other tree of the pair, while of very similar size and shape, is not a beech tree. I think an oak but I had better go back to check.

Reference 1: http://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=singular+beech+tree.