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Borrowdale - Fraternal Four

Tree ID: 102

Yews recorded: Lost

Tree girth: No data

Girth height: not measured

Tree sex: female

Date of visit: 20-Jun-02

Source of earliest mention: 1803: Wordsworth's poem 'Yew Trees'

Notes:

June 2002 – Tim Hills: What remains of the 4th yew is hidden deep in grass and bracken.
February 2015: An article in British Wildlife, pp 178-182 by Maurice Pankhurst, Stuart A’Hara and Joan Cottrell tells us that this yew was uprooted in a storm of 1866.