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Formentin

Nearest town: Lisieux

Site type: churchyard

Access: Public

Church name: Sainte-Eugénie

Diocese: No Data

County: Calvados - Normandie

Country: France

Grid ref: not known

Lost yew site: Yes

Date visited: 6-Sep-14

Recorded by: Tim Hills

Protection & responsibility: No data

Yews recorded at this site: Lost

Notes: This location is at the old church of St Eugenie, a few kilometers north of Formentin. It was described in Arcisse de Caumont's 1862 Statistique monumental du Calvados, vol 4, page 199 (when the location was known as Saint-Eugene) as follows: 'at the entrance of the cemetery there is a porch and you can see a yew in this enclosure'.