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Whittinghame

Tree ID: 2003

Yews recorded: Notable

Tree girth: 373cm

Girth height: at 150cm

Tree sex: unspecified

Date of visit: No data

Source of earliest mention: 1890: On the Old and Remarkable Yew Trees in Scotland by Robert Hutchison

Notes:

A small girthed yew, girthing 11′ at 1′ and 10′ at 5′ in 1890.
A present girth of 12′ (treefestscotland.org.uk) indicates a very slow growing tree.
April 2013: Girth of 3.73m (12′ 3”) at 1.5m recorded by David Alderman.