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Merdon Castle

Tree ID: 2143

Yews recorded: Ancient 5m-7m

Tree girth: 526cm

Girth height: at 60cm

Tree sex: male

Date of visit: 5-Dec-05

Source of earliest mention: 1865: A handbook for travellers in Surrey, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight-King and Murray

Notes:

Numbered 2013. Twenty metres along from 2012. Six feet of its bole circumference is dead wood, but new branches are poking through this decaying material. Tall central branches. Tree 5 in Toby Hindson’s Merdon Castle article. Girth of 17′ 3” (526cm) measured at 1′ – or 4′ where ground slopes away.

Yew trees at Merdon Castle:

Tree ID Location Photo Yews recorded Girth
593 Merdon Castle Ancient 7m+ 739cm at the ground - view more info
2144 Merdon Castle Ancient 5m-7m 653cm at 30cm - view more info
3360 Merdon Castle Ancient 5m-7m 526cm - view more info
2143 Merdon Castle Ancient 5m-7m 526cm at 60cm - view more info
2148 Merdon Castle Ancient 5m-7m 513cm at 30cm - view more info
2142 Merdon Castle Ancient 4m-5m 460cm at 60cm - view more info
2146 Merdon Castle Ancient 4m-5m 444cm - view more info
2145 Merdon Castle Notable 386cm at 60cm - view more info
2147 Merdon Castle Images Currently Unavailable Notable 345cm at 30cm - view more info