Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Tag: Quercus robur

  • Oak sapling in Newton Wood

    Oak sapling in Newton Wood

    Or should I say a ‘yack‘ sapling, yack being an 18th-century Yorkshire term for the oak. We also have ‘yackrams‘ for acorns. This is really a follow-on from yesterday’s post about the planting of woodland on bracken covered slopes unsuitable for general agriculture. Newton Wood is a predominately oak woodland but with ash, lime, sycamore,…