A recumbent, twin-stemmed black mulberry, situated south-west of Gunnersbury Park Museum, by a curved path. A young upright possible scion of the Black mulberry a few metres away seems to be dead. A semi-mature Paper mulberry, (Broussonetia papyrifera) can be found near the mock gothic ruin (former tile kiln), south-east of the museum. Gunnersbury Park Museum is a Grade II listed building - one of a pair of mansions that at one time belonged to the Rothschild family (their first country estate). The Large Mansion (Gunnersbury Park) was purchased in 1835 by Nathan Mayer Rothschild), along with most of the 72 hectare (200 acre) grounds, the Small Mansion (Gunnersbury House) in 1889, It was bought by Ealing Council in 1929 and turned into a museum. The park passed to the London Borough of Hounslow in 1965 and the Gunnersbury Park Joint Committee with Ealing was set up in 1967. The name Gunnersbury derives from Gunylda, the niece of King Canute who lived there until her banishment from England in 1044. A Palladian mansion on the site was pulled down in 1801 and the adjacent Small Mansion built 1802-6. The Large mansion was built around the same time. Girth derived from two stems = 136 cm and 125 cm

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