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Caterham

Tree ID: 229

Yews recorded: Lost

Tree girth: 305cm

Girth height: not recorded

Tree sex: unspecified

Date of visit: No data

Source of earliest mention: 1875: The Penny Post

Notes:

Straker recorded a yew of 10′ girth at 4′ in 1880. This was gone before 1994, when Fookes found a stump of 10′ 6” to the SSW. It was described in the 1875 Penny Post as ‘decaying’. The tree seen in the 1797 painting is probably the lost yew.