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Shropshire borders Wales and is situated in the West Midlands. The best trees are confined to the South and West where it is more sheltered and the soils have come from the Old Red Sandstone. For tree lovers - The Royal Oak - (one of the top 50 UK Jubilee Trees) the Royal Oak, Boscobel was named the Royal Oak because it is said to be the oak that Charles II hid in after the battle of Worcester. The truth is the original tree blew down and so the Victorians chose this tree which is nearby! Other interesting trees can be found at Brook Vessons, Pontesbury where you can find on the northern slopes of the stiperstones the broadest rowan, largest birch , largest holly and biggest crab apple in the county, Clun Church, Hawkestone Park, Weston-under-Redcastle, Shrewsbury, Loughton church, Lydham Manor, Lydham, Bishop's Castle where you can go and hug one of Englands largest oaks - the Lydham Manor Oak, Norbury Church, Pitchard Hall, Pitchard, Shrewsbury where the largest broad leaved Lime stands and where there is a C17th tree house which is possibly the oldest in the world, Quarry Park, Walcot Hall, Lydbury North, Bishops Castle and West Felton, Oswestry. There is an amazing sweet chesnut which is well worth a look in the churchyard of St John the Baptist at St Moffat's school, Kinlet Hall, Kinlet