Leicestershire and Rutland Mature trees Inventory 2011

This dataset replaces Ancient Trees of Leicestershire and Rutland, 2002. It contains records held by LRERC for individual Mature Trees that meet the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Local Wildlife Site criteria. Trees must be over above 3.77m girth at 1.3m above roots for all species except for Ash and Elm, which must be over 3m girth. Trees must also have dead branches, or evidence of heart-rot in the form of visible rot, hollows or bracket fungi. Girth to the nearest 10cm is included as an additional field of information. Most of the records in the dataset include an additional field of information with an 8-fig grid reference; the exception to this is trees in private gardens. Records have been collated from a variety of sources including Local Wildlife Sites, candidate Local Wildlife sites and Phase 1 Habitat Surveys. About one-third of the records are