One of Suffolk's Oldest Oaks

At least 800 years old, it stands alone amidst the rolling heathland of Ickworth Park

Ickworth Park, in its own right, is one of Suffolk’s landscape wonders. Yet it also contains some of the finest ancient trees in the west of the county.

The Tea Party Oak – so called because school children from Horringer village would historically hold tea parties beneath it – is at least 800 years old. This marks it as one of the county’s oldest surviving oaks. Squat and gnarled, its heartwood long decayed, this venerable tree can be found standing alone south of Ickworth Lodge.