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Little Sodbury Manor

Tree ID: 1722

Yews recorded: Ancient 5m-7m

Tree girth: 526cm

Girth height: at 90cm

Tree sex: male

Date of visit: 7-Nov-03

Source of earliest mention: 1916: West Country Churches - W.J. Robinson

Notes:

The living tree grows 8m from the S door of the church ruin. The bole is a mix of live and dead wood with many gaps. The largest of these, which reveals the tree’s hollow centre, closes above head height, from where a tall leading branch develops.