A segment of an historic tree felled in Bradford on Avon earlier this month will be preserved at the town’s museum.
Schoolchildren, families and representatives of the community turned out to say a final farewell to the beech tree in Victory Fields in March after a survey revealed it was disease ridden.
Gill Winfield, a trustee of the museum in Bridge Street, said: “They had the most beautiful museum in New Zealand where they had slices of the giant trees that grow out there and you could tell the age of the trees by its rings.
“I thought it would be nice to do that here and get the children involved.
“We can count the rings to look back at the life of the tree and its history in Bradford on Avon and what was happening in the town at the time.”
A horizontal slice of the beech tree’s trunk will be on display at the museum, although a date for this has not been set.
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