{"id":713936,"date":"2026-07-27T17:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713936\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:29:10","slug":"bradgate-parks-bid-to-protect-historic-oak-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713936\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradgate Park&#8217;s bid to protect historic oak trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A park trust in Leicestershire has built fencing around some of its historic oak trees in a bid to improve their health.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bradgate Park Trust said it was taking special measures to stop soil compaction beneath the trees which can affect the main upper part of the tree, known as the crown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some of the 12 fenced-off trees are more than 400 years old and are believed to date back to when Lady Jane Grey, who was famously Queen for only nine days, lived at Bradgate House in the 16th Century. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matt Molesdale, senior ranger on the park, said the project will help protect the trees from visitors and a changing climate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is hoped the project will prevent the soil surrounding the root systems from becoming compacted, which could cause the trees struggle to absorb water and nutrients. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last month it was announced that the Major Oak in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, which is believed to be more than 1,200 years old, had died, due to a combination of soil compaction and high visitor numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Bradgate Park project also aims to protect visitors from the risk of falling branches from the old trees. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A park trust in Leicestershire has built fencing around some of its historic oak trees in a bid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-713936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}