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Moreton

Tree ID: 2925

Yews recorded: Lost

Tree girth: No data

Girth height: not measured

Tree sex: unspecified

Date of visit: No data

Source of earliest mention: 2005: Life in a country village - A Dorset boy remembers

Notes:

Tim Hills: A large yew tree ‘up against the wall of the church’ is reported to have been blown apart (along with much of the church) when a bomb was dropped on 8th October 1940.
Peter Norton – 2010: Two male trees grow to the south. The southeast tree girthed 8′ 9″, the other 7′ 11″. Both were measured at 1′.