St Mary's cemetery - Eastling, Kent
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N 51° 16.453 E 000° 48.949
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Parish cemetery at St Mary's church, Eastling.
Waymark Code: WM11B40
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/19/2019
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Parish cemetery at St Mary's church, Eastling.
The church is set back from the road and is surrounded by mature yew trees (one of which is more than 2,000 years old), with only the spire visible above them.
"The gigantic yew looming over the porch is the oldest of a dozen yews in the churchyard. The bulging trunk is hollow inside but full of internal growth. The earliest record is found in an 1838 edition of The Farmers Magazine which notes its huge girth, but an 1807 painting of the church also shows a large tree by the church. In 1936 Arthur Mee wrote that it ‘is said to be as old as the throne of England, and it looks as flourishing’."
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