A tiny village is believed to be home to Britain’s oldest tree - a yew that first took took root more than 5,000 years ago. The majestic yew that lives in in a Welsh churchyard was 3,000 years old ...

A 500-year-old yew tree rooted in a ruined monastery has been named Woodland Trust Tree Of The Year. The Waverley Abbey yew, near Farnham in Surrey, took 16% of the vote to win the contest, which has ...

A majestic yew tree believed to be the better part of a thousand years old rises from a churchyard, casting its long shadow over worn and tumbled graves. The gnarled and hollow ancient yew in the ...

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Botanists say an old yew tree -- one of the world's most endangered plant species -- that grows in a nature reserve in the northwestern Shaanxi Province, is at least 500 years old. The "king yew" that ...

There’s an awful lot of bad news around at the moment, isn’t there? Well, since it’s a Friday, how about some good stuff to see in the weekend? We’ve got just the thing: it’s about very nice trees. We ...