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=== Ankerwycke Yew === The 1,400-year-old-plus<ref>{{cite book |last=Bevan-Jones |first=Robert |title=The ancient yew: a history of ''Taxus baccata'' |year=2004 |publisher=Windgather Press |location=Bollington |isbn=0-9545575-3-0 |page=57}}</ref> [[Ankerwycke Yew]], on the left (east) bank of the river, is also a possible site where Magna Carta may have been sealed. The tree could have been the location of the [[Witan]] council and influenced the founding of St Mary's Priory there. This religious site may well have been the preferred neutral meeting place of King John and the barons. Land development proposals threatening the yew led to action resulting in the tree and surrounding estate passing into the protection of the National Trust in 1998. [[Henry VIII]] is said to have met [[Anne Boleyn]] under the tree in the 1530s.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Jon |last1=Stokes |first2=Donald |last2=Rodger |title=The Heritage Trees of Britain and Northern Ireland |date=2004 |publisher=Constable |isbn=978-1-84119-959-7}}</ref> In 1992, botanist and environmental campaigner [[David Bellamy]] led a dedication at the yew, stating: {{blockquote|We the free people of the islands of Great Britain on the 777th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta do: Look back and give thanks for the benefits that the signings, sealing and swearing of oaths on that document handed down to us. Look forward to a new age of freedom through sustainability by granting the following rights to all the sons of plants and animals with which we share our islands and our planet.}} There followed ten pledges to sustain all life forms.<ref name=ntmon>{{cite web |first=Jeremy |last=Harte |title=How old is that old yew? |url=http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/oldyews.htm |work=At the Edge |date=July 1997 |access-date=9 September 2017}}</ref>
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