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Coldred

Nearest town: Dover

Site type: churchyard

Access: Public

Church name: St Pancras

Diocese: Canterbury

County: Kent

Country: England

Grid ref: TR27434758

Lost yew site: Yes

Date visited: 7-Apr-02

Recorded by: Tim Hills

Protection & responsibility: No data

Yews recorded at this site: Lost

Notes: The church is set in the middle of an earthwork covering about 3 acres and surrounded by a trench. This is thought to be a Roman or Saxon fortified camp. It is the site of a lost yew. There are three living yews in the churchyard as well as four tall specimens in an adjacent property. Venerable Yews were described at this site in Saunters through Kent (1927).