Monksilver

According to British History online this yew tree is believed to date from 1770. Its girth suggest that this could be right. The male yew grows at the top of a steep grassy slope south of a church whose alignment is ENE/WSW. It was clad in ivy which also filled some of its branches. Some of these dip close to the ground both on the upper and lower side of the tree. This must be a very damp spot and there was much moss and lichen on the branches. Foliage looked generally thin. Girth was 10′ 7” (323cm) at 3” above the higher ground. The tree has a trunk 7’/8′ high, above which are many thick and spreading branches. It appears in a drawing dated 1845 found in the church magazine. At that time the tree would have been 75 years old.