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Roundhay, Leeds, England

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Our millennium yew's mother

Yews for the Millennium was a project organised by the Conservation Foundation to provide a new yew tree for every parish in the country. All the yews were to be grown from stock produced by ancient yew trees that were growing in this country when Jesus was born.

The St Edmund's yew, planted in November 2001, was propagated from The Coldwaltham Yew in Sussex which has an estimated age of 3000 years. This ancient female yew is 33 feet round at chest height. In this picture, used by kind permission of the photographer (see www.andymcgeeney.com for more of his photographs), there is a walking stick on the right of the tree which gives some idea of the scale.

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