The spectacular Waverley Abbey Yew, whose roots grow out of ... Now in its eighth year, the Woodland Trust’s Tree of The Year contest highlights the UK’s favourite trees to celebrate the ...

A 500-year-old yew tree rooted in a ruined monastery ... It will go forward to represent the UK in the European Tree Of The Year contest. Tom Reed, citizen science officer for the Ancient Tree ...

One rather good-looking twisty trunk has just taken the crown for UK Tree of the Year in the Woodland Trust’s annual comp. The ancient yew is found in Surrey and its roots surround the ruins of ...

An ancient yew ... The tree, thought to be around 500 years old, would have been growing when Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in the late 1530s. It will now go on to represent the UK in ...

The preserved remains of a 4,000-year-old prehistoric yew tree dug up in the Dagenham marshes ... indicating that fire was used to burn off the bark and outer layers of wood.

A 1,600-year-old yew tree is being slowly destroyed by village vandals. Yobs have stripped the tree, which stands in St Mary's churchyard, Iffley, Oxford, of 20ft of bark in recent weeks.

Widely believed to be one of the oldest living trees in the UK (and indeed in Europe), the Fortingall Yew spills over its walled enclosure in a village churchyard like a great shower of dark green ...