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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Avenue / Tree or grove
- District
- Vale Of White Horse
- Town
- Ardington
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: c. 1860
Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 66208
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Current location
South of the Village
Village of Ardington
Ardington
Vale Of White Horse
Oxfordshire
OX12 8PD
England
OS Grid Ref: SU 430 880
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Beech trees organised into clumps to represent the military formations at the start of the Battle of the Alma.
- Inscription
- Unknown
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Components
- Tree
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined
- Tree
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Private
Details: Captain R J Lindsay VC, Royal Scots Fusilier Guards (1832-1901). - Reference
- Estate Villages, M A Havinden et al. (1966), pp. 92-93 (plate 3).
- 'Lindsay, Robert James Loyd - Baron Wantage (1832-1901)...', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography website: [www.oxforddnb.com/view/printable/34544]
- The Woodland Trust website: [www.treeforall.org.uk/trafalgar/AboutTheProject/]
- 'Battles of the Beeches', Brian Haimes, Blackwood's Magazine (September 1975), pp. 243-244; 248-253.
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