Could it be a crab apple? did the flowers come out before or after the
leaves? We have a tree which looks cherry like but is actually a crab
apple - Malus something "Profusion" (I think)- it has bright red single
flowers which appear after the cherry like leaves and has cherry like crab
apples in autumn. However teh bark is not at all cherry like (rougher), the
habit is not cherry like - it is all gnarled like an apple tree and it is
smaller than your average cherry.

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Hayley
(gardening on well drained, alkaline clay in Somerset)