Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)

[Yorkie]

I think we are looking across Strobl am Wolfgangsee, Austria.  Trouble is they all look the same!   )*)&

Changed my mind and now going for:

 Orth Castle Museum, Gmunden, Schloss Orth, Lake Traunsee, Upper Austria.

Danke schon!!

[Hugo]

Well done Yorkie, that didn't take you long!       

It's a beautiful area for a holiday.

[Yorkie]

Especially if you speak the language and like Strudel and Stollen!    Z**

[Yorkie]

A Miniature Village but where?

[Barbiroli]

Babacombe, Devon

[Yorkie]

Not Babbacombe, sorry!   

[Hugo]

What about Bekonscot?

[Yorkie]

Bekonscot in Beaconsfield is correct! And a fantastic place it is too.  I thought the windmill may have pointed you to Maduradam in Holland!   Obviuosly not devious enough with this one!   

[Yorkie]

A quickie easy one for you.

What type of tree and why the number on the trunk?

[Hugo]

I've no idea really so just a wild guess to start this off.   You've just come back from Portugal so perhaps this is one of the trees over there.
Quercus suber the cork Oak tree and the number perhaps something to do with the harvest such as the year the bark was harvested?   
 

[Yorkie]

And there we are - you knew the answer all the time!  Cork Tree, the bark is harvested every 9 years and the number is the year..  I didn't do the tour to the cork trees this visit and the photo is just a stock photo off the Net.

Still used in all the best vintages!    Z**

[Yorkie]

Another easy peasy one:

Where is this Cross formation of trees.  When were they planted and why? (Sorry about poor picture)

[mull]

Is it just south of Tebay in the Lune Gorge ?
viewed from M6.

Planted by a farmer in memory of his wife about 1920s.

[Hugo]

They are probably on someone's fire Yorkie as they were chopped down a year or two ago.
The cross formation was in Abergwyngregin and planted just over 50 years ago.  What actually happened was that a Head Forester wrote a book in which he described the best shaped formation of trees to protect livestock.  
The cross shaped one was proved to be the best as there was always a place for the animals to shelter which ever way the wind was blowing.
When the University bought the farm they planted the trees to test the theory based on the book.  It was proved that this was the best way BUT it was also actually the dearest to fence off!
Hope that this is the correct cross after all this blarney (photo not too clear but I can see mountains behind)
 

[Yorkie]

A very full and comprehensive answer Hugo, no more nor less than I would have expected!   Planted in 1957 and as you say reduced to firewood in recent years.  Nothing to do with aircraft crashing as many think!    

Above the cross is a 3 spoked layout and also a straight line layout also being part of the experiment of providing shelter for upland livestock, which can all still be seen on Google satelite view,

Sorry Mull, you were "barking up the wrong tree", so to speak!