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Wednesday, 9 January 2019

Betty Kenny Tree, Ambergate

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Tree from Rock-A-Bye Baby nursery rhyme? Betty Kenny's Tree where Betty (Kate Kenyon) laid her babies in the hollowed out boughs of this ancient yew (2000 years old) where she lived during the 1700s in a shelter built around the trunk whilst she and her husband, Luke, tended to their charcoal burning here in Shining Cliff Woods, Derbyshire. Sadly the tree was badly burnt in the 1930's and the remains several times since. "Rock-a-bye baby, in the tree top When the wind blows, the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, And down will come baby, cradle and all" #bettykennytree #shiningcliffwoods #rockabyebaby

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