Iconic / Famous Ancient Tree
Woolsthorpe Manor is the birth place of Sir Isaac Newton and amazingly, the very tree under which he sat and was inspired by a falling apple to work out his theory of universal gravity, still exists. Indeed it may well be the oldest known apple tree in the world. Newton formulated his theory in 1687 at which time the tree in question was probably around 30-40 years old, which would make this tree to be 370 years old, a remarkable age for an apple, which is a rare Flower of Kent variety. We are pretty certain that it is the original tree because it was recorded that the tree fell over and was sketched in 1820, and that sketch looks remarkably similar to the existing tree. It rerooted itself and still produces apples.
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