Saturday Magazine Vol.1 pp.a.10

Great Salcey Oak

Little is know of the Great Salcey Oak. Major Rooke observes, it was probably the inland situation of the little forest of Salcey, ten miles from Northampton, that caused some its majestic oaks to escape the axe, until age had secured them from the claims of the dock-yard; and of these the Great Salcey Oak is the most remarkable. Its circumference at the bottom, where there are no projecting spurs, is forty-six feet ten inches.