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Show Some Old Trees. In the park of Tortworth court, Glou-I Glou-I cestershire, the seat of Lord Ducie, is the celebrated Spanish chestnut, which is said to have been the first tree that was ever planted in Great Britain by man. This chestnut is now over 12 feet in diameter and was an old tree in the reign of Stephen. The Darley yew of Derbyshire is about 1,350 years old, while the Ankerwyke yew, near which the Magna Charta was signed, is about 1,100 years old; the yews of Fountains abbey existed at its founding, some 760 years ago; the yew tree of Fortingal churchyard is said to be the oldest tree of its kind in the world, and the Green-dale Green-dale oak of Welbeck, through which in 1724 a way was cut and a carriage and four driven through, is about 1,500 years old. London Million. j |