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What’s New – December 2015 New sites Farlow Glebe; Farlow-Glebe Farm Lane; Farlow-Hillhead Cottage; Loughton-Burwarton Lane; Loughton Lane Crossroads; Silvington-High Lane; Wheathill; Wheathill Court – Paul Wood
New photos/information Loughton churchyard – Paul Wood December 2015 |
What’s New – November 2015 New sites Canon Pyon; Middlehope – Upper House Farm; Middlehope – private; Munslow Deans - Paul Wood Burham – Ian Robert Brown Efenechtyd; Llanllechid – Reg Wheeler New photos/information
Aberhafesp; Caerhun; Cemmaes; Llandrillo; Llanelltyd; Llangadwaladr; Llangar; Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant; Llanrhaeadr-yng-Nghinmeirch; Llanwnog; Machynlleth; Maentwrog - Reg Wheeler Crowhurst, Sussex; Etchingham; Northiam; Rotherfield; Wilmington – Peter Norton Clun; Eardisland; Halford; Munslow; Sarnesfield – Paul Wood Grimescar Wood – Tom Malfait Llangower – Duncan Lorimer Change of name
Lost Yews Llangadfan; Llanllechid: Llansilin November 2015 |
What’s New – October 2015 New sites New photos/information Avening; Bacton; Breinton; Cusop; Kemble; Langley Marish; Munsley; Peterchurch; Shipton Moyne; Stockbridge-the Vine Inn yew – Peter Norton. Llanbedr Ystradyw – Glyn Jones Bettws-y-Crwyn; Heyope – Paul Wood
Correction Langley Marish has now been correctly located in Berkshire. It was transferred from Buckinghamshire as long ago as 1974
La Haye de Routot Three new items have been added to this webpage: 1 An article that appeared in The Connexion magazine in August 2015
Male and female I have just been alerted to the fact that a single female branch has been observed on the male Fortingall Yew, the tree that has for some time been accepted as the oldest yew in Britain. Although I have seen this phenomenon on only a handful of trees, I am beginning to wonder whether it might be more common than we realise, if only we were looking for it. A recent visit to Cheddar churchyard found not only a yew that was 90% male with a cluster of female branches, but the yew seen above that is 50% of each. If this was originally male and female trees planted next to each other the degree of coalescing into one tree is astonishing.
October 2015 |
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What’s New – September 2015
New sites
Significant new discoveries have been made this month, including ancient and veteran specimens.
Hoe Cross - Hugh Milner/Peter Norton/Andrew Powling
Stoke St Milborough - Three yews, possibly all veteran, growing by the side of the road opposite St Milburgha’s sacred well in Shropshire Biddenfield – Hugh Milner/Peter Norton Hopton Cangeford Lane; Stowe-Birds Holding; Titley-Balls Corner; Tugford-Brookside - Paul Wood New photos/information
Cemmaes; Clee St Margaret; Elton; Leinthall Earls; Leinthall Starkes; Llandeilo Graban; Rhulen; Shobdon; Tugford church – Paul Wood
Kentmere – Max Biden
Bucknell – as well as new photos of its two fine veterans, Paul Wood has discovered a third yew which has mysteriously gone unnoticed until now.
Lost Yews
East Hoe Manor Hopton Cangeford churchyard September 2015 |
What’s New – August 2015 New sites Hamilton Mausoleum; Hamilton-Netherton Motte – Chris Morrison
Balmerini graveyard – Delaney Leeson
Kington Rural Parish; Kinnersley; Mansel Lacy - Paul Wood
Ipswich – Christchurch Park - Geoff Blowfield
Kingweston; West Lydford - Tim Hills
New photos/information
Bredwardine; Llanbadarn-y-Garreg; Llanbedr Paincastle; Michaelchurch-on-Arrow; Newchurch - Paul Wood
Abbots Leigh; Broadwindsor; Dinder; West Monkton - Peter Norton
An 1869 drawing of the yews at La Lande-Patry - Wim Peeters August 2015 |
What’s New – July 2015 New sites Coldharbour (2 veteran yews) – Dr Peter Shaw
Cwmbach Llechryd; Dorstone – Pandy Inn; Evancoyd (V); Huntington - Clifford’s Coppice; Kington-private location; Llanfihangel-Bryn-Pabuan (V); Llansantffraed-in-Elwel (hedge); Stapleton (V) – Paul Wood Neuadd Hendidley – Mark Simcox Coates – Peter Norton/Tim Hills Ash Priors (V); Keinton Mandeville (V); Sutton Montis – Tim Hills New photos/information
Aberedw; Abergwesyn-Llanfihangel; Abergwesyn - Llanddewi; Alltmawr; Brampton Bryan; Bredwardine; Cregrina; Disserth; Eardisley; Hergest Ridge, nr Gladestry; Llanddewi Fach (Cwm); Llanelltyd; Llanelwedd; Llanfaredd; Newchurch – Paul Wood
Haselor; Hatton; Michaelston-super-Ely; Mynyddislwyn – Tim Hills
Binsted; Elworthy; Siccaridge Wood-Daneway - Peter Norton
Lost Yew
Weston Bampfylde – Tim Hills
Historic postcards
Pictures of old yews as they appeared on postcards have been sent to us by Christian Wolf. They have been added at Brockenhurst; Buxted, Harrietsham, Kingstone, Petham, Priors Dean. The yew at Buxted is shown in some detail in a fine drawing dated 1829.
A message from Georg Josef Wilhelm
Yews have fascinated me from childhood on. In 2002, I planted about 100 yew seedlings from five different European provenances in our 95 acre family (ancient) woodland at Craincourt, Lorraine, France on Jurassic limestone overlaid by aeolian silt deposit. Accurately protected aganist browsing and fraying damage by roe deer, they are all thriving, the tallest reaching well over 2 m now. I report this to encourage the reintroduction of this species that had nearly disappeared because of human greed and bilndness. Please take care of exclusive propagation of Taxus baccata in Europe.
July 2015 |
What’s New – June 2015 YewTube Peter Norton has created several compilations from his vast collection of yew photographs taken over the last few years.
These are found on two webpages:
The Common Yew - found in our Woodland, Parks and Hedgerows is located in Yew Articles – Non-churchyard Yew: Peter Norton - Yew on YewTube
Churchyard Yew Compilations is located in Churchyard Yews – County Surveys: Peter Norton – YewTube compilations
New sites
Wickham – Tim Hills Farley (Blackmoor Copse); Pitton – Peter Norton Herefordshire (private location 3); Hope Bagot Lane; Llanfihangel - helygen – Paul Wood Andrew Morton's The Trees of Shropshire (1986) reported that "a line of yews following a footpath and track that leads to the church was recently felled". He also noted that "there are several large yews on the boundary of the lane leading down the hill towards Hope Bagot churchyard". The intrepid Paul Wood has been recording them. New photos/information
Colva - Tim Hills
Llanafan-fawr, Llanyre - Paul Wood June 2015 |
What’s New – May 2015 New sites Chirbury; Dilwyn – Tim Hills
Kingswood, nr Kington – Paul Wood
Coed Wen – Jon Tainton
Stockbridge, near new cemetery – Peter Norton
New photos/information
Chew Stoke; Churchstoke; Easthope; Habberley churchyard; Trelystan; Winterborne Whitechurch – Tim Hills
Dorstone; Letton – Paul Wood
Bourneville – Janice Gregory
Stockbridge, the Milson roundabout yew – Peter Norton
La Haye de Routot
A new webpage was created last month to highlight this tree. The article now appears in English and French. Our thanks to Alain Joubert for providing this translation. May 2015 |
What’s New – April 2015 Church of England An important new webpage has been created, called North of England Surveys.
On 22nd February 1995 Graham Wilkinson began to gather information about yew tree populations in the north of England. His interest was sparked by Chetan and Brueton’s 1994 book The Sacred Yew. He was ‘puzzled by the complete lack of listed trees in Northumbria and Durham’ and the fact that only one site was mentioned in Yorkshire. In the following years Graham was to put the record straight, visiting about 900 sites, mainly churchyard, and systematically recording all the yews he found. This is a major contribution towards our knowledge of yews in a part of England for which there has until now been little information. It is unfortunate that Graham will never know the important contribution he has made towards the knowledge of yews. After his death the work he had carried out remained locked in his computer, until discovered by a close friend, who realised its potential significance and gave it to the Ancient Yew Group. La Haye de Routot The Ancient Yew Group has a record of 26 ancient yews in the churchyards of northern France. Two of these grow side by side in the churchyard at La Haye de Routot. When one of these was deliberately poisoned it galvanised into action a group that calls themselves Les Amis des ifs - Friends of the yew. The Ancient Yew Group supports them in their raising of public awareness and have created a new webpage found under Yew Articles - The Yew in Europe - La Haye de Routot. New sites Plumbland, Torver – Graham Wilkinson
Ranscombe Farm Reserve – Cliff Hansford
Hughenden – tree with a known planting date – David Alderman
Co Derry – private location – Deaglan O Doibhlin
Affpuddle; Gillingham; Itchen Wood; Loders; Milborne St Andrews; Winterborne Whitechurch – Peter Norton
New photos/information
Neidpath Castle, Tonge – Owen Johnson
Preston Patrick, Thornton Steward, Watermillock – Graham Wilkinson
La Haye de Routot – Janice Gregory
Arborfield; Kenn; Northington – Old church site; Studland; West Stour – Peter Norton
Lost yew
Bridekirk – Graham Wilkinson
Blelham Tarn – Tim Hills
Deletion The List of Yew Sites entry for Netley Heath has been removed. It was found to be a duplication of the tree already recorded as Effingham - Mountain Wood. April 2015 |
What’s New – March 2015 New sites Chickward; Empton Farm; Gladestry-Yew Tree Bank; Whiterails Wood, Sarnesfield - Paul Wood Brilley; Byford; Coychurch (Llangrallo); Cwmmau Farmhouse; Halkyn cemetery; Little Langdale; Llanblethian; Nant-ddu; Winforton - Tim Hills Alton Pancras; Mappowder; Micheldever; Minterne Magna - Peter Norton Yew Tree Inn, Lower Wield – Peter Norton and Russell Cleaver
New photos/information Church of England Lost Yew March 2015 |
What’s New – February 2015 Church of England
Information about the ancient and veteran yews in the following dioceses is now available on the Church of England webpage:
New sites
Nine Horse Wood – Cliff Hansford
Cranborne/Damerham area - Bockerley Ditch – Peter Norton
New photos
Cranborne/Damerham area - Blagdon Hill; Hambledon, Hampshire; Northington, Lawn Copse – Peter Norton
Cascob; Gladestry; Offa's Dyke, nr Maes Treylow; Whitton – Paul Wood Cobley Wood; Hunton Lane, Hampshire - Hugo Egleston February 2015 |
What's New January 2015
New coopted member Difficulty accessing some webpages List of the oldest yews in English churchyards Article New sites New photos/information
January 2015 |
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