AYG directory record

Ancient

Wrexham, Wales

This is a gazetteer pin, not a field profile. Open the Ancient Yew Group page for the survey notes. Age and girth here are class bands, not tapes.

LivingAncientChurchyardOlder than dated church

Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog Yews

Taxus baccata · Wrexham, Wales

Working gazetteer entry from public site-lists (church, AYG mentions, published compilations). Ages are conservative bands — millennial figures in popular lists are the high end, not a date. The Ancient Yew Group holds the living field survey.

Linked sources

Girth band: —
Class band: 800–2,000 yrs
Confidence: Speculative
Sex: Unknown

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Yew vs parish

This yew predates the present church by about 674 years.

Yew (estimated midpoint)c. 626

Present churchc. 1300

Sacred site (earliest)c. 700

Ages for hollow yews are speculative. A midpoint is a reading aid, not a ring count. Compare ranges on the profile, and treat anything beyond two millennia as a working hypothesis.

St Garmon, Llanarmon DC profile

Nearest recorded

30 other recorded yews within 10 miles.