The Midland Oak

The plaque located nearby

The Midland Oak is an oak tree on the boundary between Lillington and Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of about 400 species of Trees and Shrubs in the Genus Quercus (from Latin Leamington Spa, properly Royal Leamington Spa, commonly Leamington (ˈlɛmɪŋtən and "Leam" to locals is a Spa town in central Geography Warwickshire is bounded to the northwest by the West Midlands Metropolitan county and Staffordshire, by Leicestershire to A plaque at the site claims that the tree marks the centre of England, although a number of other locations in the Midlands make the same claim. There has long been debate over the exact location of the geographical centre of the United Kingdom, and its constituent countries due to the complexity and method of the calculation This article is mainly about the English Midlands For other uses see Midlands (disambiguation. The present tree was planted in the 1990s, grown from an acorn found nearby. The previous oak tree on the site—planted in the mid 20th century and again grown from a locally found acorn—had itself replaced a much older tree, the original centuries old Midland Oak.

The tree survived the extensive work carried out nearby in the early 21st century, when an underground stream was exposed and a small basin was created, to prevent the flooding of nearby houses.

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