Showing posts with label Ancient Yew Group. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ancient Yew Group. Show all posts

Sunday, 10 June 2018

More information about the old Starcross yew trees please

Tim Hills from the Ancient Yew Group offers to publish a piece, if we'll submit one, about the conical Yew trees in the village. If anyone has any information about them please get in contact with Starcross History: you can comment below please or email starcross.history@gmail.com
Tim has kindly sent links, from the Ancient Yew Group's website, which show yew topiary at Levens Hall, Melcombe Bingham, Brampton Bryan and Holme Lacy House.

The well-shod people of Victorian Starcross

©https://www.ancient-yew.org/treeInfo.php?link=4516
©https://www.ancient-yew.org/treeInfo.php?link=3041
©https://www.ancient-yew.org/treeInfo.php?link=2998
©https://www.ancient-yew.org/treeInfo.php?link=2897

Conical Yew Trees

Many thanks to Gordon White for the links to these photos of Starcross's topiary-ed yews
They are here posted so that thy can be scrolled down at the Westbank Memory Café; which meets every Tuesday morning in the Westbank Charity Shop
Could one or two of these yew trees make a reappearance one day? Maybe not to block the views from the cottages in The Strand, but perhaps there could be a place on the grassed area, near to the thatched shelter?
The Ancient Yew Group is interested in the sites of significant yews, but doesn't yet mention this amazing piece of yew history on its website. The group is interested in yews that are " Ancient, Veteran or Notable". Surely the Starcross Yews were notable?