In a park where beeches were planted in almost every decade from the 1870s to the 1930s, the national monumental tree register picked this one. Zwolle's own list of special trees records beeches going into Park 't Engelse Werk in 1877, 1887, 1907, 1920, 1927 and 1930, among other years. The register singles out the beech standing east of the restaurant, planted between 1890 and 1900, which makes it around 130 years old and the oldest of the three register trees in this part of the park. Be clear about what that rests on. The register is the only source that names this particular tree. The council's list confirms that beeches of this age stand in the park, but it gives no locations, so it cannot say which is which. The landmark it is named after has a longer story. The park has had a refreshment house near the dike since the 19th century, and it is very likely the same place the register means by the restaurant, though no source joins the two by name. When this beech went in, the park was already more than sixty years old: it was laid out between 1828 and 1830 in the English landscape style, and the big pond with its wooded islets had been added after 1874. Nobody has published a girth or height for it. If you measure it, tell us, and help settle how it compares with its neighbours.
East of the restaurant/pavilion, Park 't Engelse Werk, Zwolle You can recognise it as the big beech standing just east of the park restaurant. The silver lime and the copper beech of the register stand about 200 metres away, down by the water in the southern part of the park.
Free. Park 't Engelse Werk is a 16-hectare public walking park owned by the municipality, open at all times; the national register records this tree as visitable (visitable: ja).
About 1.9 km west-southwest of Zwolle station, roughly 24 minutes on foot.