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Cerne Abbey graveyard

Nearest town: Dorchester

Site type: former religious site

Access: Public

Church name: No Data

Diocese: Salisbury

County: Dorset

Country: England

Grid ref: ST66600140

Lost yew site: Yes

Date visited: No data

Recorded by: Mark Hinsley

Protection & responsibility: Local authority

Yews recorded at this site: Ancient 4m-5m, Lost

Notes: The Abbey House is now a private home, but parts of the old Abbey grounds are accessible, including the graveyard. As well as the tree recorded here, a yew has been lost from this site. In Companion into Dorset, written by Dorothy Gardiner and first published in 1937, she records a many-stemmed yew on the site of St Augustines Well at Abbey House in Cerne Abbas. This yew no longer grows here.