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| Lorton Yew, High Lorton | ||
| Lorton Yew | ||
| locality:- | High Lorton | |
| civil parish:- | Lorton (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | tree | |
| locality type:- | yew | |
| coordinates:- | NY16152549 (about) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY1625 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY12 | |
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 BQW30.jpg (taken 25.6.2009)  BVO98.jpg (taken 1.11.2011) |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Bogg 1898 placename:- Pride of Lorton, The |
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| source data:- | Print, engraving, The Pride of Lorton Vale, High Lorton, Lorton, Cumberland, by A
Haselgrave, published by Edmund Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James Miles, Guildford
Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1898. click to enlargeBGG174.jpg Included on p.192 of Lakeland and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg. item:- JandMN : 231.74 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Goodwin 1887 (edn 1890) |
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| source data:- | Print, etching? The Lorton Yew, High Lorton, Cumberland, by Harry Goodwin, 1883, published
by Swan Sonnenschein and Co, Paternoster Square, London, 1890. click to enlargePR1622.jpg Tipped in opposite p.256 of Through the Wordsworth Country, by William Knight. printed at lower centre:- "The pride of Lorton Vale" item:- JandMN : 382.52 Image © see bottom of page |
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 BQW31.jpg Canon Rawnsley by the Lorton Yew. |
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| hearsay:- |
The yew is behind the village hall, which is called Yew Tree Hall. It is said to be
over 1000 years old. |
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| Richardson, Keith: 2011: Jack's Yak: River Greta Writer (Keswick, Cumbria):: ISBN
978 0 9559640 2 2 |
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| hearsay:- |
Edward Bogg wrote, 1898:- |
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| ".... now only a wreck of its former glory. ... In its pride and strength the trunk
measured twenty four feet in circumference; one of its own branches was some years
ago wrenched off right down to the ground. At another time the tree was actually sold
for fifteen pounds to a cabinet maker from Whitehaven, and two men began to stub it
up, but fortunately a gentleman from Cockermouth, hearing of its proposed destruction,
made overtures to the owner, and thus preserved, though shorn of its ancient dignity,
the pride of Lorton Vale." |
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| hearsay:- |
William Wordsworth, in Yew Trees, written 1804:- |
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| "There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore. Not loath to furnish weapons for the Bands Of Umfraville or Percy ere they marched To Scotland's heaths: or Those that crossed the Sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poitiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay: Of form and aspect to magnificent To be destroyed ..." |
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| hearsay:- |
George Fox, quaker, preached under the yew tree, at High Lorton, 1653. He commented
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| "tree was so full of people that I feared they would shake it down" |
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| John Wesley, methodist, preached here in 1759. |
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