Kilmington

1890: The following account appears in The Western antiquary: or, Devon and Cornwall notebook / edited by W. H. K. Wright v.1 1881/82 Vol X July 1890/July 91:
In the churchyard at St Giles, at Kilmington, there is an old yew-tree. It is hollow, and the curious features about it are the twisted saplings, which spring from the roots, and using the body of the decayed tree as a wall up which to run, carry sap to the branches above. In the time of the Saxons there was a great fight in this neighbourhood, and tradition says that the name Kilmington is a corruption of Kil-maen-ton, or the town at the stony burial place. The local belief is that this yew-tree was planted at the time to mark the site of the slaughter; if so, it is hundreds of years older than the church.
1935: By now only a stump remained, described as ‘an arboreal curiosity and very old’. It fell on the night of 3rd/4th March 1935 (Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries).