A sapling back in 1605 when Guy Fawkes tried to blow up Parliament, indeed Fawkes and his gang hid out at a house on the same site as the tree, it had at least another century in it according to ...

a place steeped in history - it's home to Whitewebbs House which is where Guy Fawkes's Gunpowder Plot is thought to have been hatched in 1605, and formerly owned by Henry VIII's physician.