Llanfihangel Tal-y-llyn

April 1998 – Tim Hills: A crudely cut yew grows NW of the church. Everything growing from the sides of the tree had been removed, and the only life was spiking out at the top of the tree. In addition the ground around it was being used as a dump for churchyard clippings.
In 2004 I returned to check on the state of the trees and found this one had made a miraculous recovery, and all scars from the savage cutting back appeared to have healed. I was even able to ascertain that it had a girth of about 13′ at the ground. It was a pity that ivy was beginning to take hold in its branches.
Paul Wood’s photos from 2016 show how the tree has recovered. He also noted the dense twiggy growth and low canopy and thought girth was in the range 12’/13′ at its narrowest.