Worshipped by the Druids for its longevity, the Common Yew is typically found in churchyards, its soft wood used over ...

An ancient yew tree, believed to be up to 2,000 years old, is set to be "sensitively pruned" to stop it from deteriorating. The Darley Dale Yew, near the main entrance to the town's St Helen's Church, ...

BENEATH those rugged elms, that yew-tree’s shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould’ring heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. It is the loveliest ...

The yew tree in the Fortingall Churchyard in Perthshire, Scotland, was there long before there was a church, or even the practice of Christianity. The yew is believed to be anywhere from 3,000 to ...

NOT far behind the oak stands the yew in popular estimation. Its associations, its form, its distribution, its utility, account for this. We consider it an aboriginal native, and so no doubt it is.