List of Great British Trees
The Great British Trees were 50 trees selected by The Tree Council in 2002 to spotlight trees in the United Kingdom in honour of the Queen's Golden Jubilee.[1]
England[]
Western England[]
- Tortworth Chestnut in Tortworth, Gloucestershire
- in Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire
- in Croft Castle, Herefordshire
- Royal Oak in Boscobel, Shropshire
- in Bewdley, Worcestershire
South West[]
- in Ashton Court, Bristol
- Darley Oak, Upton Cross, Linkinhorne, Cornwall
- in Bicton Park, East Budleigh, Devon
- in Heavitree, near Exeter, Devon
- in Ashbrittle, Wellington, Somerset
Southern England[]
- in Brighton, East Sussex
- Queen Elizabeth Oak in Cowdray Park, Midhurst, West Sussex
- in Selborne, Hampshire
- , a Giant Sequoia, in Stratfield Saye, Hampshire
- Tolpuddle Martyrs Tree in Dorset
- in Savernake Forest, Wiltshire
London and the Home Counties[]
- in Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire
- Ankerwycke Yew in Wraysbury, Berkshire
- in Roydon, Essex
- , Panshanger Park in Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire
- in Penshurst Place, Kent
- Sweet chestnut 'The Seven Sisters Chestnut' in Viceroy's Wood, Penshurst, Kent[2]
- in Greenwich
- 'Old Lion' Ginkgo in Kew Gardens, Richmond, London
- in Surrey
Eastern England[]
- , Britain's first Dawn Redwood, in Cambridge University Botanic Garden
- , Britain's first London Plane in Ely, Cambridgeshire
- in Woolsthorpe Manor, Grantham, Lincolnshire
- Bowthorpe Oak in Bourne, Lincolnshire
- Kett's Oak in Hethersett, Norfolk
- in Norfolk
The Midlands[]
- in Derbyshire
- Lebanon Cedar in Childrey, Oxfordshire
- Major Oak in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire
- Original Bramley apple in Southwell, Nottinghamshire
Northern England[]
- in Appleton Thorn, Cheshire
- in Marton, Cheshire
- in Cumbria
- in Levens Hall, Cumbria
- in Holker Hall, Cumbria
- Wild Cherry in Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal, near Ripon, North Yorkshire
Northern Ireland[]
- , a pair of yews now appearing to be a single tree, in Crom Castle, Fermanagh
Scotland[]
- , a 300-year-old Scots Pine at Glen Affric, Highlands
- Fortingall Yew, a 2,000-3,000-year-old yew in Perth and Kinross
- , a European Larch in the grounds of a Hilton hotel built by the Duke of Atholl in Dunkeld, Perth and Kinross
- A Douglas-fir, in the grounds of Scone Palace where David Douglas was born, in Perth and Kinross
- A silver fir, in , Argyll
- Capon Tree, an oak in what used to be the Jedforest, Jedburgh, Borders
- The Craigends Yew, a 600-year-old layering Taxus baccata in Houston, Renfrewshire
Wales[]
- Ley's Whitebeam, one of only 16 Sorbus leyana (a type of whitebeam) growing wild anywhere, in Merthyr Tydfil
- Pontfadog Oak, with a girth of 12.9 metres (42 ft), the largest Sessile oak in Wales, in Pontfadog, Wrexham. The tree was blown over by the wind in 2013.
- Llangernyw Yew, the oldest tree in Europe (Between 4,000 and 5,000 years old)),[3] a yew in the churchyard of St Digain’s, Llangernyw, Conwy
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Fifty Great Trees for Fifty Great Years". The Tree Council. Archived from the original on 31 August 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
- ^ "Sweet chestnut 'The Seven Sisters Chestnut' in Viceroy's Wood in Penshurst". Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ Bevan-Jones, Robert (2004). The ancient yew: a history of Taxus baccata. Bollington: Windgather Press. ISBN 0-9545575-3-0.
External links[]
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