bigshea13 I think you are talking about the chained oak in the grounds of Alton Towers amusement park....used to be the part of the estate of the Earl of Shrewsbury...
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Though always worth remembering that legends tend to adopt many different threads over time and get more and more confused in the retelling...bits of other slightly related stories get adopted and incorporated.
The attached pics are from a website reviewing a bed and breakfast place next to the site of the tree....as you can see a large limb has torn off the oak, apparently noone in the Earl's family has died as yet!
alton.jpg the-tree.jpg