Wellingtonia 109

Something else hiding in plain sight. OK, so there was a while when I was not doing the Ewell Village anticlockwise, but the Wellingtonia catalogue started well before that, with plenty of them captured in and around Ewell Village  - but not this one by the flats in Revere Way, just off Chessington Road, a little to the east of the turning (left) into Longmead Road. Nil return for 'wgc ewell chessington' in both psmv4 and psmv5.

But I did turn up Wellingtonia 7 at reference 2, which I now believe to be a coastal redwood rather than a Wellingtonia. So an error, but an error made more than three years ago, so the score is allowed to stand. The file has been noted but we are not going to renumber from that point on.

If we suppose this tree to be of the order of 25 years old, who is to say whether it is older or younger than the flats behind?  What is going to happen as the tree gets bigger? You do see mature Wellingtonia surprisingly close to buildings, but maybe the occupants of the flats are going to start moaning after a while - even if the tree was there before the flats were. Perhaps they are moaning already. Not something I am going to get to find out about, not unless it comes to a row which makes a free paper sometime soon.

PS: thinking with my fingers, maybe a search of planning applications for these flats would turn up a document with a date. But that does not help with the tree. Not unless there has been an application to fell it.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2023/12/wellingtonia-108.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/06/wellingtonia-7.html.

Reference 3: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/06/wellingtonia-1.html. The beginning of the catalogue, during the plague. Bricks had been going for a few months. Horton Lane was the cycling circuit, with Ruxley Lane and Jubilee Way to come in a month or so. Didn't notice anything in the way of outings to London.

Group search key: wgc.