Millennium Yew - Frampton, England - Millennium Trees on Waymarking.com

A plaque at the base of the yew tree reads:

YEWS FOR THE MILLENNIUM
THIS YEW TREE WAS
PRESENTED BY
THE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
TO CELEBRATE THE THIRD
CHRISTIAN MILLENIUM

"The Foundation distributed the Millennium Yews to churches, parishes, schools, colleges, hospitals, community centres, ancient woodlands and public parks, many at specially organised services in English and Welsh cathedrals in 1999. Grown from trees of between one and two thousand years old, the English Yew (Taxus baccata) was chosen as a living symbol of celebration which reflected permanence and endurance, as well as the abundance and vitality of life. Many Millennium Yews found a place in churchyards, often alongside some very ancient yews but the new arrivals were also planted the length and breadth of the country from Canisbay, the UK’s most northern parish, to the Isles of Scilly, where the yew was delivered by HRH The Prince of Wales. A Millennium Yew marked the establishment of Berinsfield in Oxfordshire, the first new village for over 200 years and the Woodland Trust’s new woodland in East Sussex. One was planted on the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire’s estate at Chatsworth to celebrate Mothers’ Day, at Glamis Castle in memory of the Queen Mother, in Windsor Great Park and at Charles Dickens’ home at Gad’s Hill."

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