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Parkhill - nr Blairgowrie

Tree ID: 2359

Yews recorded: Ancient 4m-5m

Tree girth: 478cm

Girth height: at 10cm

Tree sex: unspecified

Date of visit: No data

Source of earliest mention: 1774: On the Old and Remarkable Yew Trees in Scotland by Robert Hutchison

Notes:

The yew, girthing 15′ at 5′, grows in good loam on a clayey subsoil. It was at that time shaped like a mushroom, appearing identical to a drawing taken of it in 1744. Its probable planting date was given as 1610. In 1986 Alan Mitchell recorded a girth of 478cm (15′ 8”) and a height of 10cm.