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Note decayed in the sense of rotting, but in the sense of no longer what it was. This close-planted row of Hawthorn and Hazel has very pronounced boles in a very narrow row, but then straggle skywards on long straight stems.

This was once a laid hedge, which at some point around 50 years ago was let go and maintenance stopped: perhaps when the adjacent block of land was put to woodland, an un-named plantation at the side of Ingoldsby wood.

It is not an act of over-imagination to suppose that this hedge was originally planted at the time of the Enclosure.