But it has survived more than the weather.
As a native elm tree, it also resisted Dutch elm disease, which destroyed most of the 30 million elms around the UK in the 1960s.
Martin said the tree had shown “remarkable resilience” to live as long as it has and it was great to see a tree of this age acknowledged.
The Ancient Tree inventory lead at the Woodland Trust, May Chemais, said it was an “astonishing and bizarre” tree that had endured a lot.
“The Bendy Tree has been blasted by extreme winds, over and over again, for well over a century.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
