Maldon Cemetery (Essex)

Lightning strike	Giant Redwood - 2 years 10 months old
Coast Redwood - 20 months old	Dawn Redwood - 19 months old

There are three large Wellingtonia in the Maldon cemetery, just off the London Road. There were four until some time ago when one succumbed to a lightning strike, as can be seen in the picture above, supplied by Mick the gardener. Sadly it eventually had to be cut down. It looks as if they may originally have been planted in the four corners of the cemetery, although the cemetery has grown somewhat since then! While they are all good examples, one is a particularly fine specimen, and makes a rather superb picture with the old house beside it. This can be seen in the first picture above. There have been some recent additions to the cemetery; a new Giant Redwood (Sequoiadendron giganteum), a Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) and a Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides). They were placed in the cemetery in December 2005. I know this because they were planted by me!

Common Names and Latin Name	No.	Latitude and Longitude		OS National Grid	Elevation (above sea-level)	Height	Girth	Date Measured
		WGS84	OSGB36
Giant Redwood, Wellingtonia Sequoiadendron giganteum	1	N51.73165 E0.66290	N51.73115 E0.66461	TL 83987 07015	108ft (32.9m)	17m 19.3m	2.96m 3.15m	March 2005 December 2007
	2	N51.73163 E0.66398	N51.73113 E0.66569	TL 84062 07016	94ft (28.7m)	24m 26.35m	3.72m 3.84m	March 2005 December 2007
	3	N51.73069 E0.66429	N51.73019 E0.66600	TL 84087 06912	83ft (25.3m)	22m	3.8m 4.05m	March 2005 December 2007
	4	N51.73116 E0.66147	N51.730663 E0.6632	TL 83891 06957	121ft (37m)	0.89m 1.56m		December 2005 December 2007
Coast Redwood Sequoia sempervirens	5	N51.73112 E0.66140	51.730623 E0.66311	TL 83886 06952	113ft (34.5m)	1.22m 1.89m		December 2005 December 2007
Dawn Redwood, Wellingtonia Metasequoia glytptostroboides	6	N51.73126 E0.66182	N51.73076 E0.66353	TL 83914 06969	105ft (32.1m)	.95m		December 2007
Girth was measured at 1.5m from ground.