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Easthampstead

Tree ID: 2782

Yews recorded: Ancient 4m-5m

Tree girth: 415cm

Girth height: at 80-100cm

Tree sex: male

Date of visit: No data

Source of earliest mention: 1849: The ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England

Notes:

In 1872 The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales recorded that ‘a very large yew tree is in the churchyard’. According to the 1923 History of Berkshire:Vol III it was ‘said to be the oldest and largest in Berkshire’. It is neither of these, but a fine tree nonetheless.