The Great British Trees were 50 trees selected by The Tree Council in 2002 to spotlight trees in the United Kingdom in honour of the Queen's Golden Jubilee.
England
Western England Tortworth Chestnut at Tortworth, Gloucestershire Westonbirt Lime Tree in Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire Spanish Chestnut Avenue at Croft Castle, Herefordshire Royal Oak in Boscobel, Shropshire Bewdley Sweet Chestnut in Bewdley, Worcestershire
South West Domesday Oak in Ashton Court, Bristol Darley Oak, Upton Cross, Cornwall Bicton College Monkey Puzzle in Bicton Park, East Budleigh, Devon Heavitree Yew in Heavitree, near Exeter, Devon Ashbrittle Yew in Ashbrittle, Wellington, Somerset
Southern England
Brighton Pavilion Elm in Brighton, East Sussex Queen Elizabeth Oak in Cowdray Park, Midhurst, West Sussex Selborne Yew in Selborne, Hampshire Wellington's Wellingtonia, a Giant Sequoia, in Stratfield Saye, Hampshire Tolpuddle Martyrs Tree in Dorset Big Belly Oak in Savernake Forest, Wiltshire
London and the Home Counties
The Cage Pollard in Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire Ankerwycke Yew in Wraysbury, Berkshire The World's End Black Poplar in Roydon, Essex The Great Oak, Panshanger Park in Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire Sidney Oak in Penshurst Place, Kent Sweet chestnut 'The Seven Sisters Chestnut' in Viceroy's Wood, Penshurst, Kent NOTE this is not in the Tree Council’s original list. Charlton House Mulberry in Greenwich 'Old Lion' Ginkgo in Kew Gardens, Richmond, London Crowhurst Yew in Surrey
Eastern England
Metasequoia at Emmanuel College, Britain's first Dawn Redwood, in Cambridge University Botanic Garden Great London Plane of Ely, Britain's first London plane in Ely, Cambridgeshire Newton's Apple Tree in Woolsthorpe Manor, Grantham, Lincolnshire Bowthorpe Oak in Bourne, Lincolnshire Kett's Oak in Hethersett, Norfolk Chedgrave Jubilee Oak in Norfolk
The Midlands Morton Horse Chestnut in Derbyshire Lebanon Cedar in Childrey, Oxfordshire Major Oak in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, reported to have died in June 2026 Original Bramley apple in Southwell, Nottinghamshire
Northern England
The Appleton Thorn Tree in Appleton Thorn, Cheshire Marton Oak in Marton, Cheshire Borrowdale Yew in Cumbria Levens Hall Yew in Levens Hall, Cumbria Holker Lime at Holker Hall, Cumbria Wild Cherry in Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal, near Ripon, North Yorkshire
Northern Ireland Great Yew, a pair of yews now appearing to be a single tree, in Crom Castle, County Fermanagh
Scotland
A silver fir, in Ardkinglas Woodland Garden, Argyll Capon Tree, an oak in what used to be the Jedforest, Jedburgh, Borders Granny Pine, a 300-year-old Scots Pine at Glen Affric, Highlands Fortingall Yew, a 2,000-3,000-year-old yew in Perth and Kinross Parent Larch, a European Larch in the grounds of a Hilton hotel built by the Duke of Atholl in Dunkeld, Perth and Kinross A Douglas-fir, in the grounds of Scone Palace where David Douglas was born, in Perth and Kinross
Wales Ley's Whitebeam, one of only 16 Sorbus leyana (a type of whitebeam) growing wild anywhere, in Merthyr Tydfil Pontfadog Oak, with a girth of , the largest Sessile oak in Wales, in Pontfadog, Wrexham. The tree was blown over by the wind in 2013. Llangernyw Yew, the oldest tree in Europe (Between 4,000 and 5,000 years old), a yew in St Digain’s churchyard, Llangernyw, Conwy County Borough.
See also List of individual trees Great Trees of London Tree of the Year
References
External links
Great British Trees press release