AYG directory record

Ancient 5m-7m, Ancient 7m+, LostNotable

Pontypool, Monmouthshire, Wales · Public access

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.

LivingAncient 5m-7m, Ancient 7m+, LostNotableChurchyardOlder than dated churchPublic access

Mamhilad Yew

Taxus baccata · Pontypool, Monmouthshire, 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.

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Girth archive

Historic tapes, not a growth curve. Height of measurement varies.

Year	Girth	Recorder
2021	8.0 m	gazetteer · published figure
2021	8.0 m	gazetteer · published figure

Girth band: 8.0 m
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 624 years.

Yew (estimated midpoint)c. 626

Present churchc. 1250

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 Illtud, Mamhilad profile

Nearest recorded

55 other recorded yews within 10 miles.

On trails

Marches Boles · historian