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Upper Chapel (Dyffryn Honddu)

Tree ID: 806

Yews recorded: Ancient 5m-7m

Tree girth: 521cm

Girth height: at 30cm

Tree sex: female

Date of visit: 1-Mar-12

Source of earliest mention: 1970: Brecon Yew Survey

Notes:

Tree 2 on the plan, south of the church, and the second tree from the churchyard gate. In the advanced stage of becoming two fragment trees, with a decaying central section that currently links the two, soon to be gone. The leaning fragment grows away from the original tree’s centre for about 10′ before resuming vertical growth.
Girth of about 16′ 3” (495cm) at 1′ was recorded in 2001.
Girth of 17′ 1” (521cm) at 1′ was recorded in 2012. The original tree would have been much larger girthed.
Paul Wood April 2016: Measured at one foot as in 2012 we recorded the same girth of 17′ 1” (521cm).

Tree ID	Location	Yews recorded	Girth
805	Upper Chapel (Dyffryn Honddu)	Ancient 5m-7m	577cm at 30cm - view more info
806	Upper Chapel (Dyffryn Honddu)	Ancient 5m-7m	521cm at 30cm - view more info
3856	Upper Chapel (Dyffryn Honddu)	Ancient 4m-5m	424cm at 90cm - view more info
3857	Upper Chapel (Dyffryn Honddu)	Notable	363cm at 60cm - view more info

Upper Chapel (Dyffryn Honddu)

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