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

## 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 References
* 7 External links

## 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

* List of individual trees
* Great Trees of London
* Tree of the Year

## 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 Release.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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