Trails

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Abbeys & Origins

Ruins, cultivars, and a chapel inside a tree

Not all yew stories are about millennia. Florence Court is the mother of every Irish Yew; Dryburgh and Fountains show ruins as gardens; La Haye-de-Routot built a chapel in a trunk.

6 stops · Britain, Ireland & Normandy · about 2464 km as the crow flies between legs — roads are longer.

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   Florence Court Yew

   Origin of Taxus baccata 'Fastigiata'.

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   Muckross Abbey Yews

   Franciscan cloister yews.

   275 km from previous stop

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   Dryburgh Abbey Yew

   Cloister yew above the Tweed.

   598 km from previous stop

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   Fountains Abbey Yews

   Cistercian precinct veterans.

   177 km from previous stop

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   La Haye-de-Routot Chapel Yew

   St Anne's chapel inside the yew.

   550 km from previous stop

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   Fortingall Yew

   The celebrity against which all others are measured.

   864 km from previous stop

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