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Oak : The Lightning Tree

Why do the English love their oaks so much? The quest to answer that question has taken us back to the Saxons and Vikings, the Romans and even to the Bronze Age. Our veneration of the Oak is very old indeed. It has all been fascinating - we have had such an adventure from such a simple question.

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