 It measured 44 m tall, its trunk at breast height 2.6 m in diameter, the largest tree of any kind in Britain.However, as Elwes pointed out, its calculated age would place its planting in the late 17th or early 18th century, long before the introduction of the Huntingdon Elm, making the tree in question more likely to be a Chichester Elm.A second tree nearby, described by Elwes as "similar in habit and foliage" and tall by in girth in 1912, was confirmed by Helen Bancroft in a "Gardener's Chronicle" article in 1934 as a 'Vegeta'-type hybrid; it was propagated by Heybroek in 1958 and cultivated at the Baarn elm research institute as clone P41.