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VERY nice pollard, Stephen.

You are right. But for some reason the willows and poplars here were done with "one head". Probably to facilitate harvesting the regrowth.

I wasn't involved, Stephen, just passed them driving by and stopped to take pictures. As I understand it a coppicing is done at almost ground level.

Not very. Less than a century.

We've had many ( and spirited) discussions about pollarding here. So when I passed these pollarded willows on my way home, I thought I'd snap a couple of pictures for y'all. It used to be that almost all roads here were lined by pollarded willows and poplars. They were started and kept low...