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Housing Units (2000): 29942
Land area (2000): 11.816328 sq. miles (30.604149 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.001072 sq. miles (0.002776 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 11.817400 sq. miles (30.606925 sq. km)
FIPS code: 70040
Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location: 42.504568 N, 83.150606 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 48067 48073
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Royal Oak
Wikipedia
Charles II was not king of "England" because of the Union of the Crowns in 1603.
The Royal Oak is the English oak tree within which the future King Charles II of England hid to escape the Roundheads following the Battle of Worcester in 1651. The tree was in Boscobel Wood, which was part of the park of Boscobel House. Charles told Samuel Pepys in 1680 that while he was hiding in the tree, a Parliamentarian soldier passed directly below it. The story was popular after the Restoration, and is remembered every year in the English traditions of Royal Oak Day. Numerous large dishes painted in slip with the Boscobel Oak, supported by the Lion and Unicorn, with the king's face peeping from the branches were made by the Staffordshire potter Thomas Toft.
The Royal Oak was the tree in which Charles II of England hid to escape the Roundheads following the Battle of Worcester in 1651.