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I realise this is a purely subjective claim, but it is one I make. The Weeping Beech, Fagus sylvatica pendula, in Walcot is sheltering the east end of the lovely church of St Nicholas.

The Weeping form is a sport, a cultivar, of the normal European Beech, and was discovered in 1836 by John Claudius Loudon, a London plantsman. All the specimens around the world are grown from cuttings of that original tree.

There is one at Kew, at the end of the Broad Walk, which is similar, and which can't date earlir than the 1836 date. I suspect both that one and the one in Walcot date from the late 1830s. There is another in Hyde Park, known as the Upside-down tree, which is quite a bit younger. There have, more recently, been trees based upon the copper variation in Beech - such as TF0820 : Weeping Beech in a garden in a suburban garden not so very far away.