On a lawn in the garden of artist, William Morris's country house, Kelmscott Manor, where he lived with his wife and two daughters and, at first, his friend, artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti {1828-82). On the banks of the upper navigable reaches of the Thames, not far from Old Radcot Bridge (built c. 1200). The tree is leaning at about 30 deg, with ivy on the trunk. Branches are propped and the crown braced. Possibly dates from when the house was built ca 1660, but more likely mid-18th c. There is a 12m high M alba a few metres away. Morris (b. 1834 d. 1896} was one of the founders of the Arts and Crafts movement. His utopian novel, News from Nowhere {1890) uses the Manor as a model of the "perfect place to live" https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3261/3261-h/3261-h.htm The house is open April to end of October. Entrance to the garden is free.

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