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The Severn valley: a series of sketches, descriptive and pictorial, of the course of the Severn: containing notices of its topographical, industrial, and geological features; with glances at its historical and legendary associations (1862)

Randall, John, 1810-1910 · London, J. S. Virtue · leaf 122

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108 THE SEVERN VALLEY. propped with, wooden blocks to j^reserve it ; and sucli is the affection for the old tree^ that its destruction would be deemed a calamity in the district. It is associated by tradition with the dawn of Christianity from the East; to the first missionaries of which it is said… … THE LADY OAK. given shelter. It bears the impress of antiquity, what- ever may be its age ; and, as if to perpetuate both the tree and its legend, an acorn dropped in the centre of its hollow trunk has given rise to a young oak, which

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