Foston

Nearest town: York

Site type: footpath/road

Access: Public

Church name: All Saints

Diocese: York

County: Yorkshire - North

Country: England

Grid ref: SE69906520

Lost yew site: No

Date visited: 2-May-12

Recorded by: Tim Hills

Protection & responsibility: Onwer

Yews recorded at this site: Notable

Notes: The church where Sydney Smith, eminent divine, essayist, and wit, held the living from 1806 to 1830. It is reported in the Churchman of 1897 that he said of Foston: 'we visited the church, approaching it from the road through a short avenue of most depressing yew trees'. These are clearly seen in the photographs.