It was one of a group planted up here in the seventies and would just have been reaching maturity. As the Woodland Trust says, a red oak takes twenty years to flower and another twenty to produce a reasonable crop of acorns. So this is definitely one that was planted as a memorial for the Ramblers secretary.
I always thought the plantings should have been native oaks. But SRWT have been destroying native oaks and many others too and are unlikely to plant a native replacement.
The main group is a little distance away but size and age are about the same so no chance it could have seeded from them. But its non-native status was enough for the restless managers to condemn it. I had understood that the Ramblers wanted these to stay, but it's possible they changed their minds or made an exception for this one.
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