The early trees like elder and hawthorn are well underway but what looks like lime green foliage on the Norway Maple (Acer platanoides) is really the flowers.
It's not really native to Britain but is a European tree and very common around Thornbury.
Once the leaves open it could be taken for a Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus), to which it is closely related, but Sycamore leaves (not shown here) come out before the flowers.
Marianne's photo is beatiful. I had no idea it flowered.
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