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Old Yew, Coniston
Yewdale Monarch
site name:-   Yew Tree Farm
locality:-   Yewdale
civil parish:-   Coniston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   tree
locality type:-   yew
coordinates:-   SD31919993
1Km square:-   SD3199
10Km square:-   SD39

photograph
BZQ39.jpg  and a new planted yew to replace it.
(taken 19.11.2013)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 1 16) 
placename:-  Old Yew, The
item:-  yew
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
"The Old Yew"
tree symbol 
evidence:-   old text:- Green 1810
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10, published 1810.
image GN14p004, button  goto source
page 5:-  "..."
"Near the house, part of which is seen in this view, is the famous yew tree, tall and beautifully picturesque, but not umbrageous like these of Patterdale and Lorton; ..."
evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
placename:-  Yew Tree, The
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, The Old Yew, Yew Tree Farm, Yewdale, Coniston, Lancashire, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 19 April 1852.
image  click to enlarge
AS0306.jpg
"Apl. 19 K.H. Yewdale (The Yew Tree)"
page number  "13/(4)"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.390.6
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, The Old Yew, Yew Tree Farm, Yewdale, Coniston, Lancashire, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 19 April 1852.
image  click to enlarge
AS0308.jpg
"Apl 19. KH. / The Yew tree / in Yewdale"
page number  "13/5(c)"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.390.8
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, The Old Yew? Yew Tree Farm, Yewdale, Coniston, Lancashire? by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 1852.
image  click to enlarge
AS0309.jpg
page number  "6(a)"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.390.9
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, The Yew Tree, Yewdale, Coniston, Lancashire, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 19 April 1852.
image  click to enlarge
AS0389.jpg
"Apl. 19 K.H. / The Yew Tree"
page number  "13/(5a)"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.390.89
Image © see bottom of page

photograph
BZQ40.jpg (taken 19.11.2013)  
photograph
BZQ41.jpg (taken 19.11.2013)  
notes:-  
 The farm is named for a large yew tree which was said to be 700 years old when it fell in 1896 (or 1894?).

Richardson, Keith: 2011: Jack's Yak: River Greta Writer (Keswick, Cumbria):: ISBN 978 0 9559640 2 2
Bradshaw, Amy: 1991 (after): Ancient Interesting and Unusual Trees of Cumbria: Cumbria Broadleaves (Bowness on Windermere, Cumbria):: ISBN 0 9524961 0 0
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