Portbury

Nearest town: Bristol

Site type: churchyard

Access: Public

Church name: St Mary Virgin

Diocese: Bath and Wells

County: Somerset

Country: England

Grid ref: ST50287542

Lost yew site: Yes

Date visited: 1-Sep-97

Recorded by: Tim Hills

Protection & responsibility: Parochial Church Council

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

Notes: 1791: Collinson recorded '3 very large yew trees' of which only one survives. It appears on the left of the 1906 postcard, while the massive columnar trunk of one of the lost yews is seen on the right. In the second postcard the lost is the tall tree on the left of the picture. Our thanks to Christian Wolf for providing this evidence. 1826: Rutter's Delineations of the NW Division of Somerset noted that "In the churchyard are three venerable yew trees, two of immense size, and are supposed to be 500 years old."

Site files:

Portbury-2024.pdf