Help identify these trees please

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Help. I'm pretty hopeless at identifying trees. Who can tell me what this is please?

Any chance of seeing one of the leaves close up?

Does this help?

Beech?

Beech, from the leaf

http://naturedetectives.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/a-z-of-uk-native-trees/common-beech/

Hornbeam
(as beech is VERY unlikely to be planted as a street tree)
drmgoeswild.com/dr-m-talks-british-tree-identification-beech-and-hornbeam/

They are lined all the way down the street. Not sure if that's relevant. Beech was my first thought but wasn't sure.

Yup, they will be Hornbeam
as Beech get HUGE
but Hornbeam stay sensible size till they are about 70

the ones in your picture are about 25

Thanks all. Would love to know how you know they're 25 years old. I naively assumed they'd be the same age as the surrounding buildings (100 years approx). Obviously not the new building opposite.

Experience !
Those brick buildings in your first picture are late 90's
as is the road layout
and the trees are the same age as the layout

My road is 1970s and our hornbeams are twice the size of those

Ah I think I've confused things. The first photo with the building opposite shows a new build. The building on the unseen side are 100 years old as will be the street. From the leaves it does look like hornbeam though so that makes sense. Thanks for your help, not knowing was starting to annoy me

Fair enough, but those trees are not old ...

As an interesting one look at Google pictures of Danebury in Hampshire
those beech trees look huge
now look at the place during Barry Cunliffe's excavations of the late 70's
...
no trees no soil ....

trees grow fast given the chance

Interesting that they're young in comparison to the buildings. I wonder if they were replanted to replace other trees.

Off to google the examples you've given...

Hornbeam not beech. Beech bark looks smooth and greyish, and the edges of the leaves are not serrated to that extent, and the branches are more spreading, not as upright as yours.

I planted quite a few trees in my garden about 25 years ago (although not hornbeam), and their trunk diameter is similar to yours, so I'd agree that's a 20 or 30 year old tree not a 100 year old one.