tsurune

This tree is unprepossessing and initially unremarkable. Standing in a small glade surrounded by scrub on the banks of the River Mersey, it would be easy to pass it by unaware.

The tree itself is affectionately known by the locals as the "500 year old oak". It shows its age having lost a main branch.

The park it stands in was used as a base to launch ferries to and fro across the Mersey, operated by monks from the nearby Abbey of St. Werburgh. In the following years a hotel and pleasure gardens were built on the park and paddle steamers traversed the river.