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Letcombe Regis

Nearest town: Wantage

Site type: churchyard

Access: Public

Church name: St Andrew

Diocese: Oxford

County: Oxfordshire

Country: England

Grid ref: SU38018648

Lost yew site: No

Date visited: 29/10/2011

Recorded by: Peter Norton

Protection & responsibility: PCC

Yews recorded at this site: Notable

Notes: A 12th century church much altered in the 15th century and restored in 1863. In the 1924 History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 4. are noted "two fine yew trees and a monument to George King Hipango, a Maori chieftain, who died at Letcombe Regis in 1871, aged nineteen years."