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Epsom

Nearest town: London

Site type: garden

Access: Private

Church name: No Data

Diocese: No Data

County: Surrey

Country: England

Grid ref: TQ20205990

Lost yew site: No

Date visited: 8-Jul-07

Recorded by: Tim Hills

Protection & responsibility: No data

Yews recorded at this site: Notable

Notes: The yew grows in the garden of a house built in the early 1700s. An article in the Guardian stated that a yew aged 750/1000 years grew in this garden. This is an exaggeration, for in Arboretum and Fruticetum part III of 1838 we are told that the tree was '10 years planted, it is 14ft. high, the circumference of the trunk 1ft. 10in., and the diameter of the head 13ft'.