Brandon - High Lodge Forest Centre (Suffolk)
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Brandon - High Lodge Forest Centre (Suffolk) |
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| High Lodge boasts two Giant Redwoods and no less than five Coast Redwoods.The five Coast Redwood are in amongst a group of trees in the middle of a field close to the visitor's centre. Typically, one of these has young stems sprouting from the base Sequioa sempervirens. Something that does not normally occur with the Giant Redwood. One of the two Giant Redwoods at High Lodge Forest centre is currently being used as an anchor for one of the cables that tether an aerial assault course. They couldn't have picked a more suitable tree for stability! The assault course features rope bridges, tarzan swings and zip slides. The tall structure in the above right hand picture is a time column, showing a representation of the geological layers of the earth. Redwood trees were in Europe before the last ice-age, this is represented by the first dark section going up from the base of the column. The above photographs were taken in 2006. |
 Coast Redwood - September 2022 |
 Coast Redwood - September 2022 |
| In 2022 Adrian sent photographs of two of the Coast Redwood at High Lodge. Sixteen years on since my visit and they still seem to be doing really well. |
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| Common Names and Latin Name | No. | Latitude and Longitude | OS National Grid | Elevation (above sea-level) |
Height | Girth | Date Measured | |
| WGS84 | OSGB36 | |||||||
| Giant Redwood, Wellingtonia Sequoiadendron giganteum |
1 | N52.43492 E0.66385 |
N52.43450 E0.66558 |
TL 81183 85220 | 181ft (55.2m) |
25.9m | 2.75m | October 2006 |
| 2 | N52.43502 E0.66373 |
N52.43460 E0.66547 |
TL 81174 85231 | 168ft (51.2m) |
22.75m | 3.23m | October 2006 | |
| Coast Redwood Sequoia sempervirens |
3 | N52.43537 E0.66384 |
N52.43495 E0.66558 |
TL 81180 85270 | 174ft (53m) |
24.3m | 2.27m | October 2006 |
| 4 | N52.43444 E0.66239 |
N52.43402 E0.66413 |
TL 81086 85163 | 152ft (46.3m) |
22.7m | 1.11m | October 2006 | |
| 5 | N52.43450 E0.66197 |
N52.43408 E0.66371 |
TL 81057 85168 | 175ft (53.3m) |
9.75m | 0.79m | October 2006 | |
| 6 | N52.43438 E0.66189 |
N52.43396 E0.66363 |
TL 81052 85155 | 168ft (51.2m) |
15.5m | .95m | October 2006 | |
| 7 | N52.43430 E0.66208 |
N52.43388 E0.66382 |
TL 81065 85146 | 170ft (51.8m) |
23.5m | 2.24m | October 2006 | |
| Tree No. 1 - High wire supporter Girth was measured at 1.5m from ground. | ||||||||