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Shorne

Tree ID: 718

Yews recorded: Ancient 5m-7m

Tree girth: 505cm

Girth height: at 15cm

Tree sex: female

Date of visit: 9-Jul-99

Source of earliest mention: 1897: The Yew-Trees of Great Britain and Ireland - John Lowe

Notes:

NE of the church. A thickened shell leans away from the building. On the inside is the decaying wood of its original trunk. Its bole bursts into growth at about 12′. Decaying wood at the base hints that this was once a larger girthed tree. Girth of 16′ 7″ (505cm) between the ground and 1′.