Burghill

2009 – Tim Hills: We were told that the 12 yews leading to the porch were planted in the 20th century to replace an older avenue which had been badly damaged by over-exuberant trimming and had to be felled. The original avenue was written about in the 1866 Woolhope Transactions as follows: ‘A fine grove of yews leading up to the south door of Burghill church. From inquiries, he had found that these latter trees are about 150 years old. They are about the thickness of a man’s body; and he had found that fact useful in estimating the ages of other trees’.
In December 2014 I measured 10 of the 12 replacement yews; their average girth was 4′ 10”.