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Swansea High Street

Tree ID: 1944

Yews recorded: Lost

Tree girth: No data

Girth height: not measured

Tree sex: unspecified

Date of visit: No data

Source of earliest mention: 1818: Drawing by Baxter (John Andrew -Churchyard Yew Trees in the Archdeaconry of Gower)

Notes:

John Andrew reports that the old drawing by Baxter shows a tree of large girth in the south of the churchyard, partly obscuring the building. Even at that time the tree appeared to be ‘in the terminal stages of decay’.