The Royal Oak, Hail Weston a formal offer for the Royal Oak. The offer was not accepted. HWCPS made another, significantly higher, offer in 2015, but this was also rejected. After several years of negotiations, a group of villagers (and members of HWCPS) got together in 2016 to make a fresh bid to buy the Royal Oak, and on 31 January 2017 the sale finally went through. Renovation and restoration work began in the following weeks, with the assistance of roughly 50 volunteers. The Royal Oak reopened on Friday 19 May 2017. The Royal Oak, Hail Weston The Royal Oak is an 18th-century public house
Oak apple Oak apple Oak apple or oak gall is the common name for a large, round, vaguely apple-like gall commonly found on many species of oak. Oak apples range in size from in diameter and are caused by chemicals injected by the larva of certain kinds of gall wasp in the family Cynipidae. The adult female wasp lays single eggs in developing leaf buds. The wasp larvae feed on the gall tissue resulting from their secretions. Considerable confusion exists in the general "literature" between the oak apple and the oak marble gall. The oak marble is frequently called the oak apple