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Description: | A local attraction, the tree blew down in 1836. For Robert Mudie in 1838 (Hampshire, volume 2, p. 293), the remains of the tree were more interesting than the church itself! John Bullar remarked on the tree in A Companion in a Tour round Southampton. 1819, 4th edition, p. 111: "The vast yew in Dibden church-yard ranks, both for age and size, among the fathers of the forest. Its hollow trunk still supports three considerable stems, and measures, near the root, about thirty feet in circumference."
After the tree had blown down, a small polished yew table was made from it which is still in the Rectory. It is inscribed: "The Revd James Grey Rector of Dibden had this table made from the ancient yew tree which was blown down in the churchyard in Nov 1836".
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Miles, Reg. 1994. The History of All Saints' Church, Dibden, Hampshire, 3rd edition, p. 6. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | All Saints rectory tree churchyard yew Dibden James Gray | Temporal: | start=1836-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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