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Wimborne Minster

Nearest town: Poole

Site type: churchyard

Access: Public

Church name: St Cuthburga

Diocese: Salisbury

County: Dorset

Country: England

Grid ref: SZ0093199930

Lost yew site: No

Date visited: 21/6/2025

Recorded by: Peter Norton

Protection & responsibility: PCC

Yews recorded at this site: Notable

Notes: Extracts from the Churchwardens Accounts for Wimborne Minster during the period 1680-1685. 1680-1 pd for a yew tree bringing and setting: 1681-2 pd Henry Brewer for watering the yew tree. 1684-5 pd for bringing down the yew tree and setting it in the churchyard. Apparently the young tree planted in 1680-1 was not thriving, notwithstanding the fostering care of Henry Brewer during the following year: and another tree had taken its place in 1684-5. This latter one, so far as I know, is the one which is seen today on the south side of the Minster. Information from Jas. M.S.Fletcher 1929.