Saint- Ursin

August 2000 – Tim Hills: Two large hollowing spaces, one with numerous internal stems/roots. From about 20′ rise two thick and straight parallel branches. Other large limbs have been removed – possibly they stretched over the road and were thought to be dangerous.
2013 – Wim Peeters: The church at St Ursin was described in 1847 as ‘protected by an ancient and monstrous yew, which looks like a cluster of trees or an interweaving of serpents, while a whispering of the wind through the leaves sounds like whistles’.
Michel Lerbourg, Saint Ursin’s deputy mayor has an archive of all the articles written about this tree. One tells the story of how it lost 3 metres of its circumference after the storms of February 1990.
In 2000 several cuttings were taken and the saplings planted in different locations.