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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Rebecca Speare-Cole

Locals ‘devastated’ after 400-year-old tree mysteriously felled in London park

Environmental campaigners and locals have decried the “devastating” felling of an ancient oak tree thought to be more than 400 years old in a north London park.

Enfield Council workers discovered the tree, which has a girth of 6.1 metres, surrounded by its severed branches and trunk in Whitewebbs Park, Enfield, last week.

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