Biology:List of Great British Trees

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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]

Ketts oak, Hethersett

England

Tolpuddle Martyrs Tree

Western England

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

South West

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

Southern England

Wellingtonias were named in honour of the first Duke of Wellington, having been introduced to this country in 1853, a year after his death. The parent tree here was planted in 1857 by the second Duchess.
  • Brighton Pavilion Elm in Brighton, East Sussex
  • Queen Elizabeth Oak in Cowdray Park, Midhurst, West Sussex
  • Selborne Yew in Selborne, Hampshire
  • Wellington's Wellingtonia, a Giant Sequoia, in Stratfield Saye, Hampshire
  • Tolpuddle Martyrs Tree in Dorset
  • Big Belly Oak in Savernake Forest, Wiltshire

London and the Home Counties

Great Oak in Panshanger Park
  • The Cage Pollard in Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire
  • Ankerwycke 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
  • Sweet chestnut 'The Seven Sisters Chestnut' in Viceroy's Wood, Penshurst, Kent[2] NOTE this is not in the Tree Council’s original list.
  • Charlton House Mulberry in Greenwich
  • 'Old Lion' Ginkgo in Kew Gardens, Richmond, London
  • Crowhurst Yew in Surrey

Eastern England

Newton's Apple Tree, Woolsthorpe Manor
  • Metasequoia at Emmanuel College, Britain's first Dawn Redwood, in Cambridge University Botanic Garden
  • Great London Plane of Ely, 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 Hethersett, 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

Holker Lime
  • 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
  • Old Homer, Kilbroney Park, Rostrevor

Scotland

Capon Tree plaque
  • Granny Pine, a 300-year-old Scots Pine at Glen Affric, Highlands
  • Fortingall Yew, a 2,000-3,000-year-old yew in Perth and Kinross
  • Arbutus Tree, a tree likely grown from a seed collected in North America by surgeon-botanist Archibald Menzies in the late 1700s near Castle Menzies Gardens NOTE This is not in the Tree Council’s original list
Arbutus Tree
  • 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 silver fir, in Ardkinglas Woodland Garden, 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 NOTE This is not in the Tree Council’s original list.

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
  • Defynnog Yew, Powys, Wales. A tree once estimated at 5,000 years old with evidence now suggesting a maximum of 2,500. NOTE it was not in the original list.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Fifty Great Trees for Fifty Great Years". The Tree Council. Archived from the original on 6 January 2003. https://web.archive.org/web/20030106150322/http://www.treecouncil.org.uk/tws/GBTPress%20Release.htm. Retrieved 1 May 2013. 
  2. ↑ "Sweet chestnut 'The Seven Sisters Chestnut' in Viceroy's Wood in Penshurst". https://www.monumentaltrees.com/en/gbr/england/kent/7785_viceroyswood/. Retrieved 2 Sep 2020. 
  3. ↑ Bevan-Jones, Robert (2004). The ancient yew: a history of Taxus baccata. Bollington: Windgather Press. ISBN 0-9545575-3-0. 

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