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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
Tolpuddle Martyrs Tree
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
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.
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
Newton's Apple Tree, Woolsthorpe Manor
Holker Lime
Capon Tree plaque
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.
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.