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Whittington Rectory

Tree ID: 1173

Yews recorded: Lost

Tree girth: 579cm

Girth height: at 105cm

Tree sex: unspecified

Date of visit: No data

Source of earliest mention: 1849: The Railway Companion from Chester to Shrewsbury by Edward Parry

Notes:

In 1849 ‘a magnificant yew-tree’ was described, ‘it is above 45 feet high, and 19 feet in circumference at 3ft 6ins from the ground; the land under its branches is 153 feet in circumference’.