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Orchard Portman

Nearest town: Taunton

Site type: churchyard

Access: Public

Church name: St Michael

Diocese: Bath and Wells

County: Somerset

Country: England

Grid ref: ST2436721656

Lost yew site: No

Date visited: 1-Sep-97

Recorded by: Tim Hills

Protection & responsibility: Parochial Church Council

Yews recorded at this site: Notable

Notes: Arthur Mee's King's England describes this remote location: 'The church in the fields is all it has, that and a few scattered cottages and farms'. Northwest of the church is this young yew that I was told was planted as a sapling in about 1985. The significant tree, which is recorded in the Tree Information, grows southeast. It has been given extravagent ages in the past.