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yew trees, Yewdale
locality:-   Yewdale
civil parish:-   Coniston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   trees
locality type:-   yew
coordinates:-   SD31479960 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD3199
10Km square:-   SD39


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BZQ83.jpg (taken 19.11.2013)  

hearsay:-  
17 yew trees are planted along a wall of vertical slate slabs here. One tenant:-
"He had a fit wife and he was a fit fella and ivery time they had a child they planted a tree ..."

Richardson, Keith: 2011: Jack's Yak: River Greta Writer (Keswick, Cumbria):: ISBN 978 0 9559640 2 2

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