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Ashampstead

Tree ID: 820

Yews recorded: Lost

Tree girth: No data

Girth height: not measured

Tree sex: unspecified

Date of visit: 1-Nov-97

Source of earliest mention: 1994: Gazetteer in The Sacred Yew

Notes:

November 1997 – Tim Hills: The church leaflet throws some light on this scrap of yew. ‘Built into the wall here is the stump of an old yew tree. Tradition says that under this tree the Gospel was first preached before the church was built, and the builders incorporated it into the wall’.