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Cleckheaton

Nearest town: Bradford

Site type: churchyard

Access: Public

Church name: Whitechapel Church

Diocese: Leeds

County: Yorkshire - West

Country: England

Grid ref: SE1792725845

Lost yew site: Yes

Date visited: No data

Recorded by: Tim Hills

Protection & responsibility: No data

Yews recorded at this site: Lost

Notes: Around 1707, the church was rebuilt. There are no records of consecration for this new building, however it is said that when the Archbishop of York arrived to consecrate it, he saw a yew tree in the church grounds and said "this is already consecrated ground", got on his horse and rode away.