Monks Horton(Horton Ct)

Nearest town: Folkestone

Site type: churchyard

Access: Public

Church name: St Peter

Diocese: Canterbury

County: Kent

Country: England

Grid ref: TR12344053

Lost yew site: No

Date visited: 28-Mar-99

Recorded by: Tim Hills

Protection & responsibility: Parochial Church Council

Yews recorded at this site: Ancient 5m-7m

Notes: 1818: In A journey round the coast of Kent by L.Fussell the churchyard is described as 'marked by two yew trees of very unusual size, which are probably coeval with the building, and although hollow and decayed (their once lofty heads and wide-spreading branches being closely shorn by the hand of time) the renovating power of nature, which has thrown up shoots within the rind of the old trunks, bids fair for a protracted duration, at least as long as the fabric shall last, to which they have mutually afforded shade, and from which have derived shelter for so many ages." By the time of Saunders' drawing of 1856 one of the two yews was lost. The surviving yew grows south of the church.

Site files:

Monks-Horton-2019.pdf