Stoke Charity

Nearest town: Winchester

Site type: churchyard

Access: Public

Church name: St Mary and St Michael

Diocese: Winchester

County: Hampshire

Country: England

Grid ref: SU488393

Lost yew site: No

Date visited: 05/03/2008

Recorded by: Robert Burrows

Protection & responsibility: PCC

Yews recorded at this site: Ancient 4m-5m

Notes: In the early 1800s Stoke Charity was described in several travel books as 'a small village remarkable for numerous surrounding yew trees, that either must have been the natural growth of the place, or the relics of its former consequence'. We can perhaps anticipate that there are yews older than this single churchyard specimen still to be found in the surrounding countryside.