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Bolney

Tree ID: 2541

Yews recorded: Lost

Tree girth: No data

Girth height: not measured

Tree sex: unspecified

Date of visit: No data

Source of earliest mention: 1700: Diary of Richard Stapley (1682-1724) recorded by Rev Edward Turner. From Sussex Arch. collections relating to the History and Antiquities of the County by Sussex Archaeological Society.

Notes:

One of the oldest records of an ancient yew, in this instance of it being pollarded. ‘On January 3rd [1700] yew great eugh tree on ye south wall of Bolney church was polled by order of John Gatwick, vicar of Bolney, and Henry Purvey, of Bolney, polled it’. A footnote to this account by M.A.Lower (1849) reports that ‘this yew tree no longer exists’.