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.

England

Western England

Tortworth Chestnut in Tortworth, Gloucestershire

Westonbirt Lime Tree in Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire

Sweet Chestnut in Croft Castle, Herefordshire

Royal Oak in Boscobel, Shropshire

The Bewdley Sweet Chestnut in Bewdley, Worcestershire

South West

Domesday Oak in Ashton Court, Bristol

Darley Oak, Upton Cross, Linkinhorne, Cornwall

Bicton College Monkey Puzzle in Bicton Park, East Budleigh, Devon

Heavitree Yew in Heavitree, near Exeter, Devon

Ashbrittle Yew in Ashbrittle, Wellington, Somerset

Southern England

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 Counties

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 NOTE this is not in the Tree Council’s original list. Charlton House Mulberry in Greenwich 'Old Lion' Ginkgo in Kew Gardens, Richmond, London Crowhurst Yew in Surrey

List of Great British Trees

Eastern England

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

List of Great British Trees

The Midlands

Morton Horse Chestnut in Derbyshire

Lebanon Cedar in Childrey, Oxfordshire

Major Oak in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire

Original Bramley apple in Southwell, Nottinghamshire

Northern England

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 Ireland

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

List of Great British Trees

Scotland

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

Arbutus Tree, a tree likely grown from a seed collected in North America by surgeon-botanist Archibald Menzies in the late 1700s near Castle Menzies Gardens NOTE This is not in the Tree Council’s original list

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 A silver fir, in Ardkinglas Woodland Garden, Argyll Capon Tree, an oak in what used to be the Jedforest, Jedburgh, Borders The Craigends Yew, a 600-year-old layering Taxus baccata in Houston, Renfrewshire NOTE This is not in the Tree Council’s original list.

Wales

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 , 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), a yew in the churchyard of St Digain’s, Llangernyw, Conwy

See also

List of individual trees

Great Trees of London

Tree of the Year

References

External links

Great British Trees press release

Forests and woodlands of the United Kingdom

Trees

British

British

2002 in the United Kingdom