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Tyninghame House

Tree ID: 2713

Yews recorded: Ancient 4m-5m

Tree girth: 441cm

Girth height: at 100cm

Tree sex: unspecified

Date of visit: No data

Source of earliest mention: 1838: Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum

Notes:

The yew grows by the ruins St Baldred’s Church, found in the grounds of Tyninghame House.
In 1838 it was recorded in Arboretum and Fruticetum as ’24 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft. 2 in., and of the head 27ft’.
April 2013 – a girth of 4.41m (14′ 6”) @1m was recorded by David Alderman.