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| Fraxinus Excelsior. |
Saturday October 8, 2016.
For a change, instead of heading in to the Unfinished City to just have a wander, I had made a list of places to visit. This list would see me head from St Pancras down to Kensington, returning via Buckingham Palace before walking to Baker Street, where I would catch a train home.
St Pancras Old Church was a place that I had heard lots about and had always wanted to visit. I was especially looking forward to seeing The Hardy Tree, surrounded by headstones.
Brief History
In the 1860s, when the Midland Railway line was being built, Thomas Hardy was put in charge of the exhumations of the human remains that would need to be moved for the railway to be completed.
This Ash tree, surrounded by tombstones, is known as the Hardy Tree and can be found in the grounds of St Pancras Old Church.
For a change, instead of heading in to the Unfinished City to just have a wander, I had made a list of places to visit. This list would see me head from St Pancras down to Kensington, returning via Buckingham Palace before walking to Baker Street, where I would catch a train home.
St Pancras Old Church was a place that I had heard lots about and had always wanted to visit. I was especially looking forward to seeing The Hardy Tree, surrounded by headstones.
Brief History
In the 1860s, when the Midland Railway line was being built, Thomas Hardy was put in charge of the exhumations of the human remains that would need to be moved for the railway to be completed.
This Ash tree, surrounded by tombstones, is known as the Hardy Tree and can be found in the grounds of St Pancras Old Church.
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| The gravestones are now overgrown with weeds. |
Update
Camden Council had been managing the Hardy Tree, since 2014, reducing its crown and installing a fence to prevent injury.
Over the next few years the tree's health began to decline and following a storm was severely weakened.
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| The old Hardy Tree in Old St Pancras Churchyard. |
In the early hours of December 27, 2022, the tree fell down.
A replacement tree was planted in April 2024.
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