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Church trees up for Tree of the Year awards 2015

by Aaron James

The organisation gives four separate Tree of the Year awards to England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

From the four winning trees, one will be selected to represented Great Britain in the European Tree of the Year Awards 2016.

In England, there are two trees from church or abbey premises: the Martindale Yew in St Martin's Church in Cumbria (pictured above), a yew tree believed to be 800 years old, and; Glastonbury Holy Thorn, a hawthorn tree believed to have descended from wood brought to Europe by Jospeh of Arimathea - the man who offered his tomb to house Jesus' body.

In Wales, three trees from churchyards are represented: the Discoed Yew in St Michael's Churchyard, Powys, which is believed to be 5,000 years old; the Bettws Newydd Yew, in a churchyard four miles from the town of Usk, which is 33-foot wide, and; St David's Yew in Llanddewi Rhydderch, in St David's churchyard, which has a tree growing inside of it's hollow centre, owing to its nickname "The Resurrection Tree".

Scotland and Northern Ireland's tree shortlists do not feature any in churchyards.

You can vote for your Tree of the Year on the Woodland Trust website. Voting ends October 12, with winners being announced by the end of 2015.

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