The Great British Trees were 50 trees selected by The Tree Council in 2002 to spotlight trees in the United Kingdom in honour of the Queen's Golden Jubilee.^[1]

England

Tolpuddle Martyrs Tree

Southern England

Wellingtonias were named in honour of the first Duke of Wellington, having been introduced to this country in 1853, a year after his death. The parent tree here was planted in 1857 by the second Duchess.

• Brighton Pavilion Elm in Brighton, East Sussex
• Queen Elizabeth Oak in Cowdray Park, Midhurst, West Sussex
• Selborne Yew in Selborne, Hampshire
• Wellington's Wellingtonia, a Giant Sequoia, in Stratfield Saye, Hampshire
• Tolpuddle Martyrs Tree in Dorset
• Big Belly Oak in Savernake Forest, Wiltshire

London and the Home Counties

Great Oak in Panshanger Park

• The Cage Pollard in Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire
• Ankerwycke Yew in Wraysbury, Berkshire
• The World's End Black Poplar in Roydon, Essex
• The Great Oak, Panshanger Park in Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire
• Sidney Oak in Penshurst Place, Kent
• Sweet chestnut 'The Seven Sisters Chestnut' in Viceroy's Wood, Penshurst, Kent^[2] NOTE this is not in the Tree Council’s original list.
• Charlton House Mulberry in Greenwich
• 'Old Lion' Ginkgo in Kew Gardens, Richmond, London
• Crowhurst Yew in Surrey

Eastern England

Newton's Apple Tree, Woolsthorpe Manor

• Metasequoia at Emmanuel College, Britain's first Dawn Redwood, in Cambridge University Botanic Garden
• Great London Plane of Ely, Britain's first London Plane in Ely, Cambridgeshire
• Newton's Apple Tree in Woolsthorpe Manor, Grantham, Lincolnshire
• Bowthorpe Oak in Bourne, Lincolnshire
• Kett's Oak in Hethersett, Norfolk
• Chedgrave Jubilee Oak in Norfolk

Northern England

Holker Lime

• The Appleton Thorn Tree in Appleton Thorn, Cheshire
• Marton Oak in Marton, Cheshire
• Borrowdale Yew in Cumbria
• Levens Hall Yew in Levens Hall, Cumbria
• Holker Lime in Holker Hall, Cumbria
• Wild Cherry in Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal, near Ripon, North Yorkshire

Northern Ireland

• Great Yew, a pair of yews now appearing to be a single tree, in Crom Castle, Fermanagh

Scotland

Capon Tree plaque

• Granny Pine, a 300-year-old Scots Pine at Glen Affric, Highlands
• Fortingall Yew, a 2,000-3,000-year-old yew in Perth and Kinross
• Arbutus Tree, a tree likely grown from a seed collected in North America by surgeon-botanist Archibald Menzies in the late 1700s near Castle Menzies Gardens NOTE This is not in the Tree Council’s original list

Arbutus Tree

• Parent Larch, a European Larch in the grounds of a Hilton hotel built by the Duke of Atholl in Dunkeld, Perth and Kinross
• A Douglas-fir, in the grounds of Scone Palace where David Douglas was born, in Perth and Kinross
• A silver fir, in Ardkinglas Woodland Garden, Argyll
• Capon Tree, an oak in what used to be the Jedforest, Jedburgh, Borders
• The Craigends Yew, a 600-year-old layering Taxus baccata in Houston, Renfrewshire NOTE This is not in the Tree Council’s original list.

Wales

• Ley's Whitebeam, one of only 16 Sorbus leyana (a type of whitebeam) growing wild anywhere, in Merthyr Tydfil
• Pontfadog Oak, with a girth of 12.9 metres (42 ft), the largest Sessile oak in Wales, in Pontfadog, Wrexham. The tree was blown over by the wind in 2013.
• Llangernyw Yew, the oldest tree in Europe (Between 4,000 and 5,000 years old),^[3] a yew in the churchyard of St Digain’s, Llangernyw, Conwy
• Defynnog Yew, Powys, Wales. A tree once estimated at 5,000 years old with evidence now suggesting a maximum of 2,500. NOTE it was not in the original list.

See also

• List of individual trees
• Great Trees of London
• Tree of the Year

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Great British Trees.

• Great British Trees press release