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Llanycil

Tree ID: 213

Yews recorded: Ancient 5m-7m

Tree girth: 540cm

Girth height: at 99cm

Tree sex: male

Date of visit: 6-Apr-98

Source of earliest mention: 1834: Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Wales

Notes:

W of church and close to wall. Though not one of the largest girthed, this yew is columnar in form and retains its girth for a considerable height.
Reg Wheeler recorded a girth of 540cm (17′ 8”) at 3′ 3” in 1983. He recorded it as female, we considered it to be male.
In 1998 we recorded an approximate girth of 19′ 6″.