Joseph Tubb

Joseph Tubb (1805–1879) was a maltster from Oxfordshire, England who created the Poem Tree at Wittenham Clumps,[1] which died in the 1990s and finally collapsed in July 2012.

[2][3] Tubb lived at Lavender Cottage in Warborough, a village near the town of Dorchester.

Joseph Tubb opposed the enclosure of the commons and pulled down fences in rebellion against this.

Tubb's main legacy was to carve a poem on a large beech tree on the eastern side of Castle Hill at Wittenham Clumps.

[4] He took a tent and a ladder to Castle Hill and spent the summers of 1844 and 1845 carving the letters of a 20-line poem.