article_snippet: At one time the tree, whose stump is 35ft in diameter, towered as high as a 30-storey building.
article_snippet: the tree, whose stump is 35ft in diameter, towered as high as a 30-storey building was felled in the late 19th Century on the orders of William Walford Astor who is said to have bet drinking mate William Walford Astor could source a 40-seat dining table from a single cross-section of a tree.
article_snippet: A huge slice indeed arrived at Cliveden, William Walford Astor stately home in Buckinghamshire, but William Walford Astor forbid peers from retelling the story.
article_snippet: the felled tree is thought to have been felled at the request of William Walford Astor after William Walford Astor made a drunken bet insisting that William Walford Astor could source a 40-seat dining table from one slice of cross-section .
article_snippet: its base has a diameter of 35ft and, at one time, is thought to have towered as high as a 30-storey building .