Britain’s oldest tree has been discovered in a Welsh churchyard and it’s more than 5000 years old. Source: The Daily Mail
The ancient yew lives in a Welsh churchyard and is thought to have been standing more than 3000 years before Jesus Christ was born.
Experts have run tests on the tree in the St Cynog’s churchyard at Defynnog near Sennybridge, Powys, including DNA and ring dating.
The species is common across European churchyards because its evergreen leaves and longevity is a symbol of Christ’s transcendence of death.
