With a girth of 6.9 m (22.6 ft) and a height of 40 meters , the Ulmus × hollandica hybrid elm on Great Saling Green, Great Saling, near Braintree, Essex, reckoned at least 350 years old, was reputedly the largest elm in England, before succumbing to Dutch Elm Disease in the 1980s; R. H. Richens, Elm, p.243 Elwes and Henry (1913) misidentified it as U. nitens (Ulmus minor).