Photo of Whipsnade Tree Cathedral, a folly near Ivinghoe in the Chilterns, Bedfordshire, eastern England. — © Colin Park / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Whipsnade Tree Cathedral

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After the First World War, Edmund Blyth planted trees in the outline of a medieval cathedral here as a memorial to friends killed in the fighting — grass avenues for the nave and transepts, and ‘walls’ and ‘chapels’ of different species. Planting began in 1932, and Blyth gave the ten-acre garden to the National Trust in 1960. Free and open, up on the Dunstable Downs above Whipsnade.

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