Wiltshire Yews An Inventory of Churchyard Yews Along the Avon Valley
By Peter Norton
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15 Summary:
Over the five reports into the churchyard yews that grow along the River Avon and its tributaries we have visited one hundred and ninety one churchyards and other places of worship, recorded the positions of six hundred and sixty yews and taken measurements of two hundred and fifty one trees.
The histogram below groups the measured trees according to their girth. The pie chart shows the percentage of yews in each girth range, while the column graph compares the statistics for each of the five areas visited.
Measured Yew Trees by Girth Range
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117 120 s e
e 100 r t 92 f o r e
b 80 m u N
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2 1 2 1 1 0 0.0M to 1.0M to 2.0M to 3.0M to 4.0M to 5.0M to 6.0M to 7.0M to 8.0M to 9.0M to 10.0M to 11.0M to 1.0M 2.0M 3.0M 4.0M 5.0M 6.0M 7.0M 8.0M 9.0M 10.0M 11.0M 12.0M
Percentage / Girth 350 7 1 3
6-7M, 0.40% 300 8-9M, 0.80% 10-11M, 0.40% 5-6M, 0.80% 12-13M, 0.40% 250 4-5M, 8.37% 1-2M, 5.58% 200 9 2
150 1 0 6 1 0 5 7 1
3-4M, 36.65% 1 8 7 2-3M, 46.61% 100 3 1 5 0 5 4 5 3 1 7 5 8 4 2 2 5 8 4 4 3 1 1 2 2 1 3 1 50 1
0 Wylye Ebble Nadder Bourne Avon Sites Visited Sites with yews Total yews Measured yews
16 Appendix 1: Churches visited (Wiltshire)
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17 Appendix 1: Churches visited (Hampshire & Dorset)
Hale St Mary* Woodgreen Methodist Woodgreen St Boniface Breamore St Mary* Whitsbury St Leonards* Whitsbury Baptist* Rockbourne St Andrews* Martin All Saints* Damerham St George* Sandleheath St Aldhelms Sandleheath Methodist Fordingbridge St Mary the Virgin* Fordingbridge Our Lady of Sorrows Alderholt (Dorset) St James* Alderholt (Dorset) Congregational Harbridge All saints* Ellingham St Mary and All Saints* Gods Hill St Giles Stuckton Evangelical Frogham Congregational Hyde Church of Holy Ascension* Mockbeggar Cross lanes Chapel Ibsley St Martins* - now an art and craft centre. Poulner St John the Baptist Poulner Baptist Ringwood St Peter and St Paul* Crow Hill Methodist* Bisterne St Paul Avon Causeway Hurn Chapel Sopley St Michael and All Angels* Burton Green (Dorset) St Luke Burton Green (Dorset) United Reform Christchurch (Dorset) Parish and priory church of the Holy Trinity* Christchurch (Dorset) Elim church Purewell (Dorset) St Johns
© Peter Norton Dec 2009
Historical references:
Historical date references have been obtained but not directly copied from;
Wiltshire County Council - http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/church_search.php University of London and History of Parliament Trust http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
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