Woodbridge - Woodbridge cemetery (Suffolk)
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Woodbridge - Woodbridge cemetery (Suffolk) |
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 Giant Redwood - Tree no. 1 - September 2017 |
| Two Giant Redwood and a Coast Redwood stand in the "old" cemetery in Woodbridge, while another Giant is in the "new" cemetery. There are entrances to both cemeteries at the end of Portland Crescent and Cemetery Lane, and an entrance to the old cemetery in Warren Hill Road. |
 Giant Redwood - Tree no. 1 - September 2017 |
 Coast Redwood - Tree no. 2 - September 2017 |
 Giant Redwood - Tree no. 3 - September 2017 |
 Giant Redwood - Tree no. 4 - September 2017 |
| This young Giant Redwood stands in the "new" cemetery. |
* * * Update - October 2022 * * * Peter sent this update when he visited the cemetery in Woodbridge in Ocotober 2022. Peter wrote; "I tried to find the same photo-taking-spot as the current photos on your site from 2017 for a direct comparison). You can see that the giant in the new cemetery has had some surgery to its lower branches in the last few years, revealing its trunk."  Giant Redwood - Tree no. 4 |
| "Now that its trunk is accessible, we used the string method at 1.5m height on the younger tree in the new cemetery (Tree 4) - this came out as 2.56m." |
 Giant Redwood - Tree no. 1 |
 Giant Redwood - Tree no. 1 |
| "We used the string method to measure the girth of the older giant (Tree 1) in the old cemetery, at 1.5m height, which came out as 5.15m." |
 Coast Redwood - Tree no. 2 |
 Giant Redwood - Tree no. 3 |
| Thank you for the photographs and measurements, you did a good job of finding the same positions as ours to compare with 2017. |
| Common Names and Latin Name | No. | Latitude and Longitude | OS National Grid | Elevation (above sea-level) |
Height | Girth | Date Measured | |
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| Giant Redwood Sequoiadendron giganteum | 1 | N52.09068 E1.30543 | N52.09020 W1.30720 | TM 26532 48746 | 185ft (56.40m) | 28.5m | 5.05m | September 2017 |
| 2 | N52.09077 E1.30536 | N52.09029 W1.30713 | TM 26526 48756 | 172ft (52.44m) | 13.1m | -- | September 2017 | |
| Coast Redwood Sequoia sempervirens | 3 | N52.09039 E1.30493 | N52.08991 W1.30670 | TM 26499 48712 | 155ft (47.26m) | 18.3m | -- | September 2017 |
| Giant Redwood Sequoiadendron giganteum | 4 | N52.09210 E1.30572 | N52.09162 W1.30749 | TM 26544 48905 | 102ft (31.10m) | 11.9m | -- | September 2017 |
| Girth was measured at 1.5 metres from ground | ||||||||