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St Margarets - field

Tree ID: 2027

Yews recorded: Lost

Tree girth: 348cm

Girth height: at 90cm

Tree sex: unspecified

Date of visit: No data

Source of earliest mention: 1854: Archaeological journal: 11,56. Author: Birch Information compiled by Hilary White for Historic Herefordshire on-line

Notes:

In The Gentlemans Magazine of 1853 an article entitled Ancient Cruciform Mound, And Excavations Or Cavities, Recently discovered in St Margarets Park, Herefordshire – is the following: I learn from a workman that about thirty years ago nine large yew trees were felled that grew around it, one of which was of gigantic size.