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Doveridge

Nearest town: Uttoxeter

Site type: churchyard

Access: Public

Church name: St Cuthbert

Diocese: Derby

County: Derbyshire

Country: England

Grid ref: SK11383410

Lost yew site: No

Date visited: 8-Aug-99

Recorded by: Tim Hills

Protection & responsibility: Parochial Church Council

Yews recorded at this site: Ancient 5m-7m

Notes: Parts of the church date from c1075 but it is thought that an earlier church stood on this site. The yew, which grows ESE, was described in Lewis's 1848 Topographical Dictionary of England as ' a curious yew'. In the National Gazetteer of 1868, it is referred to as a 'very ancient yew-tree'.

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