and found it to be 1 foot more. The tree's branches have been lopped in recent years and the trunk is patched with iron sheets.

There are three other "British Oaks" nearby, planted at each corner of the triangular green, to commemorate:
* 60 years of Queen Victoria's reign (1897)
* the coronation of King Edward VII (1902)
* the accession of King George V (1910)