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The Ankerwycke Yew The Ankerwycke Yew (east side) The Ankerwycke Yew is an ancient yew tree close to the ruins of St Mary's Priory, the site of a Benedictine nunnery built in the 12th century, near Wraysbury in Berkshire, England. It is a male tree with a girth of 8 metres (26 ft) at 0.3 metres. [1] The tree is at least 1,400 years old, [2] and ...
The 1,400-year-old-plus [33] Ankerwycke Yew, on the left (east) bank of the river, is also a possible site where Magna Carta may have been sealed. The tree could have been the location of the Witan council and influenced the founding of St Mary's Priory there. This religious site may well have been the preferred neutral meeting place of King ...
The ancient 4000+ year old yew tree at Llangernyw Certificate signed by Professor David Bellamy establishing the Llangernyw Yew's age The 2500 year old Ankerwycke Yew. Several trees in the UK, all of them European yews, are thousands of years old, and one of them has been reported as 5000 years old or more, which would mean a tree older than ...
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.
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English: Grade II listed Yew Tree Farmhouse, Frankby This is a photo of listed building number 1259870 . Wikidata has entry Yew Tree Farmhouse (Q26550951) with data related to this item.
The tree was famously used as a location in the 1990s film Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves, with the title character, played by Kevin Costner, evading enemies with the support of Morgan Freeman ...
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