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Rudry

Tree ID: 1756

Yews recorded: Lost

Tree girth: No data

Girth height: not measured

Tree sex: unspecified

Date of visit: 31-May-99

Source of earliest mention: 1880: Paper presented to Cardiff Nat.Soc. by T.H. Thomas

Notes:

In 1880 there was recorded a yew which ‘girths 17′ 6″ at 2′ from the ground, and in height surpasses any we have described’. Thomas Henry went on to give a full description of the ‘mere shell, partially alive’. This tree is now lost. The surviving veteran yew grows SE of the church.