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]
England[edit]
Western England[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Morton Horse Chestnut in Derbyshire
- Lebanon Cedar in Childrey, Oxfordshire
- Major Oak in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire
- Original Bramley apple in Southwell, Nottinghamshire
Northern England[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Great Yew, a pair of yews now appearing to be a single tree, in Crom Castle, Fermanagh
- Old Homer, Kilbroney Park, Rostrevor
Scotland[edit]
- 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
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Fifty Great Trees for Fifty Great Years". The Tree Council. Archived from the original on 6 January 2003. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
- ^ "Sweet chestnut 'The Seven Sisters Chestnut' in Viceroy's Wood in Penshurst". Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ Bevan-Jones, Robert (2004). The ancient yew: a history of Taxus baccata. Bollington: Windgather Press. ISBN 0-9545575-3-0.
External links[edit]
- Great British Trees press release