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The photographs show: to the left Reydon
Wood, a typical Suffolk ancient woodland
with features characteristic of mediaeval
coppice wood. The southern boundary consists
of an impressive bank and ditch. In the wood
itself there are many large coppice stools,
some hundreds of years old. Also left, but for
the clothes, in a timeless scene, a man is seen
cutting withies from willow coppice stools for
basket weaving. Above: Anglo-Saxons are
pollarding trees in June in a scene from the
Tiberian Calendar. To the right is the quite
magnificent pollarded Queen Beech at
Frithsden in the Chilterns that inspired JK
Rowling’s Whomping Willow and below
ancient pollarded beech trees in Epping Forest
in autumn. It’s not hard to picture cattle or
swine grazing beneath these magnificent trees
.