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Timber ...
This always amuses me: the spire of Chesterfield parish church - was constructed with poorly cured hornbeam ( Carpinus betulus) and as the wood dried it twisted the spire.
Hornbeam is one of the hardest of temperate timbers and the beams actually ring like metal.
Hornbeam
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