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In 2002 the Ashbrittle Yew was selected as one of '50 Great British Trees' chosen to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. A carved sign stands beside the tree and bears the following information: The Ashbrittle Yew, Taxus Baccata, Reputed To Be Over 3000 Years Old. This tree was mature when Stonehenge was in use.
The Crowhurst Yew is a yew tree in the churchyard of St George's Church in Crowhurst, Surrey, England. It is thought to be about 4,000 years old. Its girth was measured in 1630 as 30 feet (9.1 m). It was mentioned by John Evelyn in 1664, and John Aubrey mentioned it in his Natural History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, published in ...
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]
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Taxus is the Latin word for this tree and its wood that is used to make javelins. [7] The Latin word is probably borrowed, via Greek τόξον tóxon, from taxša, the Scythian word used for "yew" and "bow" [8] (cognate of Persian تخش Taxš meaning bow) [9] [10] because the Scythians used its wood to make their bows. [9]
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.
One of the nation's top egg producers confirmed that one of its farms tested positive for cases of bird flu over the weekend, the company said. Rose Acres Farms, which claims to be the second ...