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Stowe - Gloucestershire

Nearest town: Monmouth

Site type: former religious site

Access: Private

Church name:

Diocese:

County: Gloucestershire

Country: England

Grid ref: SO56210623

Lost yew site: No

Date visited: 9-Nov-03

Recorded by: Tim Hills

Protection & responsibility: Landowner

Yews recorded at this site: Ancient 4m-5m, Ancient 5m-7m

Notes: The site is on private farmland; I have been unable to establish ownership. In 2014 I was sent information, found in A History of the County of Gloucester, volume 5 (1996), that appears to confirm this as the site of a chapel that was founded some time before 1220, and thought to have been closed in 1361. It began as a hermitage belonging to the royal estate called Stowe. According to Arthur O.Cooke 'NE across the field lies the camp, perhaps the dwelling place of a prince of Gwent'.