Trees with a History Betty Kenny’s Tree in Shining Cliff Woods, near Ambergate, was once a charcoal burner’s home. His children were supposedly rocked to sleep in the tree’s branches, which may have been the original cradle in the nursery rhyme “rock-a-bye baby”. Bog oak is the wood of ancient trees which have been preserved in peat. It is very hard and makes good furniture. A bog oak was once was found in a peat bog known as Crimeberry Hole, between Hollinsclough and Longnor. The bog lay on the Harpur Crewe Estate and men and horses were sent from Calke Abbey to fetch the valuable wood. But the horses became bogged down in the swamp and had to be shot. Their bodies, and the precious oak, were abandoned to the bog. Read More >> More Pictures Plants and Trees