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Kinver Edge

Nearest town: Stourbridge

Site type: historic site

Access: Public

Church name: No Data

Diocese: No Data

County: Staffordshire

Country: England

Grid ref: SO835832

Lost yew site: No

Date visited: 17-Oct-12

Recorded by: Paul Greenwood

Protection & responsibility: National Trust

Yews recorded at this site: Notable

Notes: On the embankment of an Iron Age Hill Fort, on land owned and managed by the National Trust. Elevation about 500 ft, it is on a sandstone plateau now classisfied as heathland, i.e. very poor soil. Also in mixed woodland planted post 1945 but the area was once part of the great ancient Mercian forest.