I came across this wonderful tree (or trees) in Brede recently. It is a hornbeam, Carpinus betulus, once part of a hedging operation, maybe in the 19th century. Perhaps four shoots came up from the horizontal and survived survived to make today's silvery trunks.
The tree reminded me of Rodin's famous sculpture of the Burghers of Calais (plenty of pictures of that on the Web).
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