List of great British trees
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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.
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[edit] England
[edit] 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
[edit] South West
- Bicton College Monkey Puzzle in Bicton, Devon
- Heavitree Yew in Exeter, Devon
- Darley Oak in Upton Cross, Cornwall
- Ashbrittle Yew in Ashbrittle, Wellington, Somerset
- Domesday Oak in Ashton Court, Bristol
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
- Crowhurst Yew in Surrey
- "Two in One" Huge Giant Redwood with huge limb. about 8m in Girth. Blackdown, Surrey
[edit] 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
[edit] The Midlands
- Morton Horse Chestnut in Derbyshire
- Lebanon Cedar in Childrey, Oxfordshire
- Major Oak in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire
- Original Bramley apple in Southwell, Nottinghamshire
[edit] 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, Yorkshire
[edit] Northern Ireland
- Great Yew, a pair of yews now appearing to be a single tree, in Crom Castle, Fermanagh
[edit] 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 on the grounds of a Hilton hotel built by the Duke of Atholl in Dunkeld, Perth and Kinross
- A Douglas-fir, on the grounds of Scone Palace where David Douglas was born, in Perth and Kinross
- A Silver Fir, in Ardkinglas Woodland Garden, Argyll
- Capon Tree, an oak in what used to be the Jed Forest, Jedburgh, Borders
[edit] 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 (possibly 2,000-3,000 years old), a yew in the churchyard of St Digain’s, Llangernyw, Conwy