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Hippolyte Oak

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Hippolyte Oak

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Parc naturel régional Normandie-Maine

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    May 30, 2023

    Hiking

    This oak is the oldest in the Andaines forest. He is 300 years old. It is named after a local forester who tended the forest from the late 1800s until the early 1900s.
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    January 19, 2020

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    Less than three kilometers from Bagnoles de l'Orne in the Ferté-Macé forest massif stands an immense oak tree, three hundred years old. The Hippolyte oak is the oldest oak tree in the Andaines forest and without a doubt the most imposing. It stands in the middle of a plot planted with beech and spruce.

    The 30-meter-high tree has a circumference of 5.26 m to 1.30 m from the ground. This popular oak tree is nicknamed Hippolyte in tribute to the former forest ranger Hippolyte Foinet who restored the tree in the early 20th century.
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    June 20, 2023

    Cycling

    Around the trunk the moss points north.
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    1. King Arthur's Trail

    5.67km

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    This easy 3.5-mile loop in Parc naturel régional and Géoparc Normandie-Maine features the ancient Hippolyte Oak and Saint-Ortaire Priory.

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    Elevation 200 m

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    Location: La Ferté-Macé, Alençon, Normandy, France

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