The large well-kept green, with its row of chestnut trees on the south side.

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Meanwhile, Garnett Walker, an elderly widower with a passion for chestnut trees, feuds no less bitterly with his neighbour, a feisty spinster called Nannie Rawley.

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The white and blue two-storey Friesenhaus in the centre of town is the most iconic, resembling a fairytale-like dollhouse tucked in between two tall chestnut trees.

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Mr Paterson also announced that imports of sweet chestnut trees could be banned under proposals to prevent a repeat of the ash dieback crisis threatening ash trees across the country.

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Sweet chestnut blight is currently afflicting trees in France and other areas.

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Campaign group No Oulton Turbine said 342 mature trees, including oak, ash, sweet chestnut, rowan and Corsican pines, covering three-quarters of an acre, had been felled.

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Mr Barter said the trees were under threat from the spread of the chestnut leaf mining moth and chestnut bleeding canker.

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Over the next 25 years, Braka, along with two partners, purchased fields as they came up for sale and slowly restored the parkland to its original state, planting more than half a million trees of mixed broadleaf varieties oak, ash, chestnut and blackthorn.

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In China, Japan and Korea it kills elms, horse chestnut, poplars, maples, alders, willows and a range of fruit trees.

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