List of great British trees

List of great British trees

A list of great British trees was a list published by the Tree Council to spotlight trees in Great Britain in honour of the Queen's Golden Jubilee.

England

Western England

* Tortworth Chestnut in Tortworth, Gloucestershire
* Lime Tree in Westonbirt, Gloucestershire
* Sweet Chestnut in Croft Castle, Herefordshire
* Royal Oak in Boscobel, Shropshire
* The Bewdley Sweet Chestnut in Bewdley, Worcestershire

South West

* Bicton College Monkey Puzzle in Bicton Park, East Budleigh, Devon
* Heavitree Yew in Exeter, Devon
* Darley Oak in Upton Cross, Cornwall
* Ashbrittle Yew in Ashbrittle, Wellington, Somerset
* Domesday Oak in Ashton Court, Bristol

Southern England

* Brighton Pavilion Elm in Brighton, East Sussex
* Queen Elizabeth I Oak in Cowdray Park, Midhurst, West Sussex
* Selborne Yew in Selborne, Hampshire
* Giant Sequoia in Stratfield Saye, Hampshire
* Tolpuddle Martyrs Tree in Dorset
* The Big Belly Oak in Savernake Forest, Wiltshire

London and the Home Counties

* The Cage Pollard in Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire
* Ankerwyke Yew in Wraysbury, Berkshire
* The World's End Black Poplar in Roydon, Essex
* The Great Oak, Panshanger Park in Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire
* Sidney Oak in Penshurst Place, Kent
* "King Kong" Large Giant Redwood In Polecat Copse, Surrey
* Charlton House Mulberry in Greenwich
* 'Old Lion' Ginkgo in Kew Gardens, Richmond, London
* Crowhurst Yew in Surrey
* "Two in One" Huge Giant Redwood with huge limb. about 8m in Girth. Blackdown, Surrey

Eastern England

* Britain's first Dawn Redwood in Cambridge University Botanic Garden
* Britain's first London Plane in Ely, Cambridgeshire
* Newton's Apple Tree in Woolsthorpe Manor, Grantham, Lincolnshire
* Bowthorpe Oak in Bourne, Lincolnshire
* Kett's Oak in Wymondham, Norfolk
* Chedgrave Jubilee Oak in Norfolk

The Midlands

* Morton Horse Chestnut in Derbyshire
* Lebanon Cedar in Childrey, Oxfordshire
* Major Oak in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire
* Original Bramley apple in Southwell, Nottinghamshire

Northern England

* The Appleton Thorn Tree in Appleton Thorn, Cheshire
* Marton Oak in Marton, Cheshire
* Borrowdale Yew in Cumbria
* Levens Hall Yew in Levens Hall, Cumbria
* Holker Lime in Holker Hall, Cumbria
* Wild Cherry in Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal, near Ripon, North Yorkshire

Northern Ireland

*Great Yew, a pair of yews now appearing to be a single tree, in Crom Castle, Fermanagh

Scotland

*Granny Pine, a 300-year-old Scots Pine at Glen Affric, Highlands
*Fortingall Yew, a yew at Perth and Kinross, Perthshire
*Parent Larch, 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 Douglas-fir, in the grounds of The Hermitage, Dunkeld
*A Silver Fir, in Ardkinglas Woodland Garden, Argyll
*Capon Tree, an oak in what used to be the Jed Forest, Jedburgh, Borders

Wales

* Ley's Whitebeam, one of only 16 "Sorbus leyana" (a type of whitebeam) growing wild anywhere, in Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire
*Pontfadog Oak, with a girth of 12.9m, the largest Sessile oak in Wales, in Pontfadog, Wrexham
*Llangernyw Yew, the oldest tree in Wales (dated to 4,000 to 5,000 years old), a yew in the churchyard of St Digain’s, Llangernyw, Conwy

See also

*List of famous trees

External link and source

* [http://www.treecouncil.org.uk/tws/GBTPress%20Release.htm Great British Trees]


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