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Emergency surgery carried out on Hughenden’s Champion horse chestnut tree

Europe’s largest horse chestnut tree, at Hughenden, has had to undergo emergency tree surgery this week as a large crack has opened up in its main trunk. The 300 year old horse chestnut was designated Champion status in 2014 after rangers measured its girth. At 7.33m (just over 24 feet) it was officially verified as...

Bigger and Better – next steps for the Chilterns AONB

We are committed to working with our stakeholders to “explore the case for and against the Chilterns having enhanced status or being designated a National Park” and to “review the boundary of the protected area to cover the wider area of the Chilterns landscape that merits it.”