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Bexley

Nearest town: London

Site type: churchyard

Access: Public

Church name: St Mary the Virgin

Diocese: Rochester

County: Greater London

Country: England

Grid ref: TQ4984073462

Lost yew site: Yes

Date visited: 9/7/2005

Recorded by: Penelope Stanford

Protection & responsibility: PCC

Yews recorded at this site: Lost

Notes: The church is 13th century. In Mee's The King's England (1940s) 'seven old yews growing in the churchyard' are described. One was 'believed to be about as old as the Conqueror' and 'one of the oldest yew trees growing so near to London'.