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Allestree - Siddals Lane

Nearest town: Derby

Site type: garden

Access: Private

Church name:

Diocese:

County: Derbyshire

Country: England

Grid ref: SK3480939801

Lost yew site: No

Date visited: No data

Recorded by: George Bailey

Protection & responsibility: Owner

Yews recorded at this site: Notable

Notes: In Reminiscences of Old Allestree by George Bailey (1885) p171/2 contains the following description: "One such old place we well remember-a half-timber farm-house, with a huge wooden barn attached, like a Noah's Ark for size, and apparently as old, all patched and mended, until which was the original could scarcely be told. In the yard stood an old yew tree, and there was an old draw-well hard by, into which some farmer of olden time had fallen and been drowned. The villagers told strange tales of how his ghost would come and perform various freaks in the midnight hours, unloosing the horses in the stables, and causing a general stampede; but now the old place and its ghost are gone, and only the old yew tree remains a solitary evidence of what has been- standing in a field about a hundred yards north of the church.