Wellow

Lowe’s 1897 book contains the following description: “A yew-tree at Wellow, East Somerset, was planted in 1834 and was then ’the size of a finger.’ It measured in 1882, 38.5 inches; in 1896, 43.7 inches (I.B.). The growth of this yew has been about 42 inches of circumference in sixty-two years, and 5ft 2inches in the last fourteen. ’It does not look a very thrifty tree.’ The increase is at the rate of 14 inches of diameter in sixty-two years.”
I visited in February 2003 and recorded a girth of exactly 6′ at 3′
In January 2015 a girth of 6′ 1′ at 2′ was recorded.