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.{{cite web |url=http://www.treecouncil.org.uk/tws/GBTPress%20Release.htm |title=Fifty Great Trees for Fifty Great Years |date=|publisher=The Tree Council |accessdate=1 May 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030106150322/http://www.treecouncil.org.uk/tws/GBTPress%20Release.htm |archivedate=6 January 2003 |url-status=dead }}
England
= Western England =
= 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 =
= London and the Home Counties =
- 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{{cite web |url=https://www.monumentaltrees.com/en/gbr/england/kent/7785_viceroyswood/ |title=Sweet chestnut 'The Seven Sisters Chestnut' in Viceroy's Wood in Penshurst |accessdate=2 Sep 2020 }} 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 =
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- 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 =
= Northern England =
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- 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, County Fermanagh
Scotland
File:A sign at the Capon Tree - geograph.org.uk - 744652.jpg plaque]]
- A silver fir, in Ardkinglas Woodland Garden, Argyll
- Capon Tree, an oak in what used to be the Jedforest, Jedburgh, Borders
- 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
- 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
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 {{convert|12.9|m}}, 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),{{cite book |last=Bevan-Jones |first=Robert |title=The ancient yew: a history of Taxus baccata |year=2004 |publisher=Windgather Press |location=Bollington |isbn=0-9545575-3-0}} a yew in the churchyard of St Digain’s, Llangernyw, Conwy
See also
References
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External links
{{Commons|Great British Trees}}
- [http://web.archive.org/web/20070501214031/http://www.treecouncil.org.uk/tws/GBTPress%20Release.htm Great British Trees] press release
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