Corridor forest · Coastwood
The Oak Hall
Boles thick enough to hide behind and a roof of leaves two storeys up. It is cooler in here by a hand.
The Oak Hall is a walkable stand of 131 greatoak trees in Coastwood, 200 m along its long axis, with the lowest crown 12.6 m overhead.
Measured
- Centre — x 430, z -270
- Ground height — 32.1 m
- Band — Coastwood
- Species — greatoak
- Trees — 131
- Solid pieces — 499
- Footprint — 200 m by 148 m
- Outer radius — 95.1 m
- Trunk height — 21 m to 26 m
- Lowest crown — 12.6 m
- Narrowest gap between trunks — 5.4 m
- Crown cover — 4.6× the ground beneath
- Nearest named place — Oakhollow, 241 m away
- From Landfall — 428 m north-west
The trees
Rounded crowns, stacked, closing overhead into a roof rather than a ceiling.
131 trunks stand on a triangular lattice 11.0 m apart, each jittered up to 1.5 m off its cell so no two rows line up. Trunks run 21 m to 26 m, and the lowest 60% of one is bare — which is the whole reason you can see down a lane here instead of standing in a bush. The first crown starts 12.6 m above your head.
The narrowest passage this species can produce between two trunk colliders is 5.4 m, which is the floor for the entire stand: everything else in it is further apart than that.
Walking it
The footprint is 200 m by 148 m, turned on its own axis so it follows the land rather than the compass. A lane 6.4 m wide is kept clear along the long axis and a glade 11 m across sits at the heart of it — the two places in a closed forest where you can see the sky.
499 solid pieces in total: trunks, and the fallen logs you can stand on. Ground litter, light shafts and drifts are drawn but carry no collider.