Peter Holmes of The Beeches felled the large beech tree in front of his house in the early 1980's. Not surprisingly; since this was one of the Park's finest trees; the action caused a great stir prompting the following poem from Peter..

If you can make a mountain from a molehill
and use it thus to fly your little kite;

If you can spurn the view of council experts
because you claim that you are in the right;

If you can hint your case has legal substance
when all the time you know that is not true;

If you can write a load of childish rubbish
and get committee back for it too;

Then you are round the twist my son
and what is more, you've nothing else to do.

usual apologies to Mr. Rudyard Kipling