List of Great British Trees

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates 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.<ref name="TTC-2002">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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Ketts oak, Hethersett

EnglandEdit

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Tolpuddle Martyrs Tree

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 CountiesEdit

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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<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Charlton House Mulberry in Greenwich
'Old Lion' Ginkgo in Kew Gardens, Richmond, London
Crowhurst Yew in Surrey

Eastern EnglandEdit

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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

The MidlandsEdit

Morton Horse Chestnut in Derbyshire
Lebanon Cedar in Childrey, Oxfordshire
Major Oak in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire
Original Bramley apple in Southwell, Nottinghamshire

Northern EnglandEdit

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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 IrelandEdit

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

ScotlandEdit

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Capon Tree plaque

A silver fir, in Ardkinglas Woodland Garden, Argyll
Capon Tree, an oak in what used to be the Jedforest, Jedburgh, Borders
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
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

WalesEdit

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 Template:Convert, 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),<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> a yew in the churchyard of St Digain’s, Llangernyw, Conwy