Cobham

August 1999 -Tim Hills: The ‘grand yew’ grew SW of ‘Church Cobham’. It was recorded by Swanton (1955) with a girth of 21′ at 3′ and apparently blew down in 1987. The drawing (c1900) was taken from Walter Jerrold’s Surrey, one of the Dent’s County Guides series.
2015 – Toby Hindson: ‘First measured in 1954 by R. Gardener who found 663cm at an unknown level above ground, then a measure by E. Swanton at 1m gave 637cm. Alan Mitchell last measured the standing bole in 1981 when the tree was 656cm at 1.3m. I found the yew long since felled and measured the girth of the remaining fragments in 2008 at 30cm from ground: 619cm. The bark was lost but the annual ring formations on the sap wood were clear and showed no loss of vigour in the last few decades of the yew’s life’.