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Ashford Hangers National Nature Reserve

Nearest town: Petersfield

Site type: woodland

Access: Public

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County: Hampshire

Country: England

Grid ref: SU73702640

Lost yew site: No

Date visited: 25-Jan-11

Recorded by: Peter Norton

Protection & responsibility: Landowner

Yews recorded at this site: Notable

Notes: One of Hampshire's most beautiful woodland areas covering an area of some 323 acres. The poet, Edward Thomas, lived at Yew Tree Cottage (1913-1916) before his death in the First World War. The yews along this path feature one of his poems, called The Path:'Running along a bank, a parapet/That saves from the precipitous wood below/ The level road, there is a path. It serves/ Children for looking down the long smooth steep,/ Between the legs of beech and yew'.