East Woodhay - churchyard

An Introduction to Field Archaeology as Illustrated by Hampshire by Williams-Freeman (1915): In a paper in the Hampshire Antiquary and Naturalist, two records are given of the size of yews of known age; the yew in East Woodhay churchyard was planted by Bishop Ken, who was rector there in about 1669. This was 7ft. 7in. in girth in 1888, which would give it a growth rate of 3’ 5½” in a century. The second record gives a rate of growth of 5′ 10” in a century in a tree 169 years old. The yew was cut down and the last remnants had rotted away by the end of the 1980s.