Tree ID: 1128
Yews recorded: Ancient 4m-5m
Tree girth: 478cm
Girth height: at 20cm
Tree sex: female
Date of visit: 1-Oct-97
Source of earliest mention: 1885: Tourist's guide to Somersetshire: rail and road by Richard Nicholls Worth
Notes:October 1997 – Tim Hills: Described more than 50 years ago as ‘split’, one half of it has now been removed leaving a small girthed tree. The first photo (undated) shows clearly its two stems, in the second (1999) one of the trunks has been reduced to a stump.
2006 – recorded by Owen Johnson as a female yew split into two trunks. He considered it looked more like a younger tree with two stems from the base. A height of 14m, diameter of 152cm at 0.2m, girth of 478cm.
October 2015 – Tim Hills: Measurement around the surviving trunk at the height of the stump was 11′ 5” (348cm). Combined girth with the stump, measured at same height, was exactly 16′ (488cm).
Tree ID | Location | Photo | Yews recorded | Girth |
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1128 | Crowcombe | Ancient 4m-5m | 478cm at 20cm - view more info |