If you're a tree in many parts of the Peak District it's something of a lonely life. Sheep will gather underneath when in need of shade from the hot sun and cattle are more likely to shelter from the rain, but neither beast understands that there will be more trees around to perform this function if they didn't eat the small saplings. So a lonely wind blasted thorn can be the only one seen in the landscape. It doesn't help of course that the conservation industry has set its face against trees, with designations of SSSI and similar which declare that trees put sites in unfavourable condition! This tree is a favourite for its hardiness, pluckily hanging on to the side of the hill often with little sign of life.
But a closer view tells a slightly different story.
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