Revisiting the Hardy Tree

A return trip to the Hardy Tree in St Pancras Old Churchyard, associated with author Thomas Hardy. It was created when gravestones were piled around an ash tree during the 1860s. After contracting a disease, the tree fell in December 2022. This is what it looked in June 2025…

Queens Wood

The road from the west to the Mossy Well runs through woodland. Once the trees would have extended much further. Now the Mossy Well has become the North London suburb of Muswell Hill and the forest has shrunk to two small patches along either side of the main road from Highgate tube.