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| Old Yew, Coniston | ||
| Yewdale Monarch | ||
| site name:- | Yew Tree Farm | |
| locality:- | Yewdale | |
| civil parish:- | Coniston (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | tree | |
| locality type:- | yew | |
| coordinates:- | SD31919993 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD3199 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD39 | |
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 BZQ39.jpg and a new planted yew to replace it. (taken 19.11.2013) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 1 16) placename:- Old Yew, The item:- yew |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. "The Old Yew" tree symbol |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Green 1810 |
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| source data:- | Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature,
by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10,
published 1810. goto sourcepage 5:- "..." "Near the house, part of which is seen in this view, is the famous yew tree, tall and beautifully picturesque, but not umbrageous like these of Patterdale and Lorton; ..." |
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| evidence:- | old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s placename:- Yew Tree, The |
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| source data:- | Drawing, pencil, The Old Yew, Yew Tree Farm, Yewdale, Coniston, Lancashire, by Theophilus
Lindsey Aspland, 19 April 1852. click to enlargeAS0306.jpg "Apl. 19 K.H. Yewdale (The Yew Tree)" page number "13/(4)" item:- Armitt Library : 1958.390.6 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s |
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| source data:- | Drawing, pencil, The Old Yew, Yew Tree Farm, Yewdale, Coniston, Lancashire, by Theophilus
Lindsey Aspland, 19 April 1852. click to enlargeAS0308.jpg "Apl 19. KH. / The Yew tree / in Yewdale" page number "13/5(c)" item:- Armitt Library : 1958.390.8 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s |
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| source data:- | Drawing, pencil, The Old Yew? Yew Tree Farm, Yewdale, Coniston, Lancashire? by Theophilus
Lindsey Aspland, 1852. click to enlargeAS0309.jpg page number "6(a)" item:- Armitt Library : 1958.390.9 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s |
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| source data:- | Drawing, pencil, The Yew Tree, Yewdale, Coniston, Lancashire, by Theophilus Lindsey
Aspland, 19 April 1852. click to enlargeAS0389.jpg "Apl. 19 K.H. / The Yew Tree" page number "13/(5a)" item:- Armitt Library : 1958.390.89 Image © see bottom of page |
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 BZQ40.jpg (taken 19.11.2013)  BZQ41.jpg (taken 19.11.2013) |
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| notes:- |
The farm is named for a large yew tree which was said to be 700 years old when it
fell in 1896 (or 1894?). |
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| Richardson, Keith: 2011: Jack's Yak: River Greta Writer (Keswick, Cumbria):: ISBN
978 0 9559640 2 2 Bradshaw, Amy: 1991 (after): Ancient Interesting and Unusual Trees of Cumbria: Cumbria Broadleaves (Bowness on Windermere, Cumbria):: ISBN 0 9524961 0 0 |
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