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Compton Abbas

Tree ID: 2538

Yews recorded: Lost

Tree girth: No data

Girth height: not measured

Tree sex: unspecified

Date of visit: 12-Jan-08

Source of earliest mention: 1906: Treves: Highways and Byeways of Dorset

Notes:

January 2008 – Tim Hills: I visited with an unsourced reference to an ‘overgrown yew’, of which there was no sign. From Mark Hinsley: Sir Frederick Treves (1853-1923), writing in Highways and Byeways of Dorset (1906), recorded a yew at this abandoned church.