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A history of the Major Oak

Olwen Hawkes, chair of the Edwinstowe Historical Society, said: “It was surveyed by a Major Rooke, and it is from him it got the name, but was also often known as the Queen Oak or Cockpen Tree, as fighting cockerels were allegedly kept [in] its hollow trunk.


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