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.

Contents 1 England 1.1 Western England 1.2 South West 1.3 Southern England 1.4 London and the Home Counties 1.5 Eastern England 1.6 The Midlands 1.7 Northern England 2 Northern Ireland 3 Scotland 4 Wales 5 See also 6 External link and source

[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 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

[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 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

[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 (dated to 4,000 to 5,000 years old), a yew in the churchyard of St Digain’s, Llangernyw, Conwy

[edit] See also

• List of famous trees

[edit] External link and source

• Great British Trees