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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 .
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Yew Tree may refer to: Yew, any of various coniferous plants; Yew Tree, West Bromwich, West Midlands, England; Yew Tree Tarn, a lake in the Lake District, England; Yew Tree (ward), an electoral division in Liverpool; Yew Tree Colliery, a coalfield in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester
Taxus brevifolia, the Pacific yew or western yew, is a species of tree in the yew family Taxaceae native to the Pacific Northwest of North America. It is a small evergreen conifer , thriving in moisture and otherwise tending to take the form of a shrub .
A cutting of the Fortingall Yew at Kindrogan Field Studies Centre Clippings from the tree have been taken to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, to form part of a mile-long hedge. The purpose of this "Yew Conservation Hedge Project" is to maintain the DNA of Taxus baccata from ancient specimens in the UK as, worldwide, the trees are ...
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.
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