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Drayton - Somerset

Nearest town: Langport

Site type: churchyard

Access: Public

Church name: St Catherine

Diocese: Bath and Wells

County: Somerset

Country: England

Grid ref: ST40512478

Lost yew site: No

Date visited: 3-May-02

Recorded by: Tim Hills

Protection & responsibility: Parochial Church Council

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

Notes: A 15th century church restored in 1855 and 1896. 1781: Church register reports that stone seats were built around the two yews. (source of information not known) In 1791 'two fine yew trees with stone seats under them' were described (Collinson). 2020: Male and female grow either side of the path to the church, each contained within a circular wall with concrete right up to the trunk.

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