Llyshendy

Lynn Hughes describes a formidable old yew thus: ‘The oldest yew I ever encountered was at Llyshendy on the Ffairfach to Bethlehem road, once a medieval almshouse. As a boy I spent many hours visiting Mr Gunston who tutored me as a field naturalist. He showed me where owl pellets over hundreds of generations had accumulated in its vast hollow trunk. I’d guess two thousand years old. In the 1960s, a subsequent owner felled it as it obscured his view of the entrance gate’.