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Moxon's archives, Yew Tree Mills. The company was acquired in 1993 [15] [n. 1] by British industrialist Firas Chamsi-Pasha, [17] formerly of textile firm Hield Brothers. [18] [n. 2] Mr Chamsi-Pasha dropped 90% of the company's customer base [2] and concentrated its production in the most expensive segment of the cloth market, [16] with retail price up to £4,200 a metre in 2005 [20] for ...
The modern Irish name for Newry is An tIúr (pronounced [ənʲ ˈtʲuːɾˠ]), which means "the yew tree". An tIúr is a shortening of Iúr Cinn Trá, "yew tree at the head of the strand", which was formerly the most common Irish name for Newry. This relates to an apocryphal story that Saint Patrick planted a yew tree there in the 5th century.
Wootton Wawen / ˈ w ʊ t ən ˈ w oʊ. ən / is a village and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England. The village is on the A3400 in mid-western Warwickshire, about 20 miles (32 km) from Birmingham , about 2 miles (3 km) south of Henley-in-Arden and about 6.5 miles (10 km) north of Stratford-upon-Avon .
Tyldesley Coal Company was a coal mining company formed in 1870 in Tyldesley, [1] on the Manchester Coalfield in the historic county of Lancashire, England that had its origins in Yew Tree Colliery, the location for a mining disaster that killed 25 men and boys in 1858.
William James's Memorial Plaque at the Yew Tree's House. Benjamin Beddome (1717–1795), hymn writer, was born in the town. Many of his hymns are in the General Baptist Hymn Book. [25] Keble Howard pen name of John Keble Bell (1875–1928), author and journalist, grew up in Henley where his father was Vicar. [26]
The Fortingall Yew has long been considered the oldest tree in the UK due to its former enormous size and the slow-growing nature of yews. Previous 19th-century estimates had the tree at 2,000-3,000 years old, [20] although more recent estimates establish a minimum age of 5,000 years for the tree. [21]
The Llangernyw Yew. The Llangernyw Yew (pronounced [ɬanˈɡɛrnɨu] ⓘ) is an ancient yew (Taxus baccata) in the village of Llangernyw, Conwy, Wales. The tree is fragmented and its core part has been lost, leaving several enormous offshoots. The girth of the tree at the ground level is 10.75 m (35.3 ft). [1]
Epicormic albino leaf growth on the smaller Defynnog Yew. This yew tree or trees stands in the churchyard of St Cynog's Church.It is very hard to accurately determine the age of yew trees [7] [8] and a nearby café and gift shop holds a certificate of 2002 from the Yew Tree Campaign, signed by David Bellamy, which states that "according to all the data we have to hand" the tree is dated to ...