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Dorset is a beautiful county with rolling countryside and a stunning, dramatic coastline with lovely beaches. There are some fantastic specimens of tree particularly near Wimborne and Wareham and in the West and North of the County. For tree lovers - The Tolpuddle Martyrs Tree - (one of the top 50 UK Jubilee Trees) the Tolpuddle Martyrs were agricultural workers who assembled under this huge pollarded Sycamore. It is said, they were the founders of the first trade union in 1834. Nearby is another Sycamore planted to commemorate 150 years or their transportation to Australia! Other interesting trees can be found at Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens, Broad Windsor church where there is a huge yew, Canford School, Wimborne with its giant sweet chesnuts, Central Gardens Bournemouth, Deans Court, Wimborne Minster, Forde Abbey, Chard, Kingston Lacy near Winborne with its C17th cedar and lime avenues, Holt Forrest (Holt means wood in Saxon), Ludworth Castle with its fossil forests and fossilized tree stumps, Melbury House in Melbury Samford where one can find some record breaking species and it is well worth checking out an old oak called 'Billy Wilkins', Minterne which was the setting for 'Far from the Madding Crowd' and 'The woodlanders', Sherbourne Castle Gardens with C18th Holm Oak, Lebanon Cedars, Ginko Bilboa and Redwood Sequoia, Staplehill Nursery in Winborne, and Woolland Church where there is another of the largest yews in England.