1.  There’s a weeping ash by the Bottle Inn, Marshwood [Dorset].  I asked a local about it and he said it’s a drooping ash, as only willow weeps [Thorncombe, Dorset, April 2021].*

2. Weeping ash is an important indicator of wealth/status when associated with an old farm or manor house.  There is one at Dolesfoot Farm garden in Newborough [Staffordshire], in the manor house at Clifton Campville [Staffordshire] and  in an old farmhouse on the Ashby Road on the outskirts of Ashby de la Zouch [Leicestershire].  If you could plant a weeping ash as opposed to the timber variety it was a sign that you did not need to concentrate on growing timber for construction.  We do not have a weeping ash! [Yoxall, Staffordshire, January 2016].

*  But it seems that beech, Fagus sylvatica, can also be ‘weeping’; see label below, photographed at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in June 2023.

Images: main, planted, grounds of Pitzhanger Manor, London Borough of Ealing, April 2024; upper inset, immature tree, planted, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin, September 2016.