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18-02-2009, 17:45
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The significance of the tree
Apart from google earth indicating the tree as being the centre of Yorkshire, it is also the descendant of the bur tree in which a boy sniper used to shoot and kill Lord Dacre (one of the Lancastrian commanders) with a crossbow from at the battle of Towton in 1461.
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