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The Alan Mitchell Memorial Lecture 2000 The Growth Rate of Taxus Baccata: An Empirically Generated Growth Curve. By Toby Hindson Copyright 2000, revised 2007 Girth measuring at Farringdon, Hampshire “ ” ’ ’ whom historic measures have been taken, and to whom a similar debt is owed, is found in the bibliography below. The following analysis demonstrates that the ideas of Allen Meredith and Professor David Bellamy on ageing yews are broadly correct, and roughly corroborates most of the ages given in the gazetteer in The Sacred Yew (2). A yew such as the specimen at Linton is quite likely to be as much as 4,000 years old, although judging only by girth, and ignoring the state of the tree, the graph in this work gives an age of about 2,000 years. The figure of 2,000 can be regarded as an absolute minimum, or a basic figure to add to, because the Linton tree is rather complex.