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Millennial Yew of Estry

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Millennial Yew of Estry

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Millennial Yew of Estry

Name: Millennial Yew of Estry
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Location: Valdallière, Vire, Manche, France

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1. Tour d'Horloge loop from Campagnolles

47.3km

02:03

410m

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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2. Tour d'Horloge – Millennial Yew of Estry loop from Vire

49.7km

02:15

530m

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3. Millennial Yew of Estry loop from Vire

49.6km

02:12

520m

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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Jocelyn LANGLOIS

August 27, 2023

Classified among the remarkable trees of France by the association "ARBRES", it is recognized as one of the oldest in metropolitan France, with an estimated dating between 1400 and 1800 years. Difficult to know with more precision because it is hollow. You can easily enter it for ten people, you will even see it house the crib at Christmas.
Initially venerated as a pagan symbol of the passage from life to death, this funerary yew could have seen Clovis, it especially saw an imposing church erected at its foot. It was spared by the Revolution (testimonials from that time would report that he saved the church and the village from lightning more than once) and suffered significant damage in August 1944 when the cemetery was the site of a terrible tank battle which set fire to and felled the church. The solidarity at the end of the war (local and also more distant coming from Pontvallain, 72) allowed the reconstruction of the village; from these treatments the yew was able to start afresh.
It is nonetheless threatened by a water stress that is clearly visible today. Reliable witness to a long and rich past, the millennial yew tree of Estry questions us about what we are preparing to show it for the centuries to come. As of today, he is alerting us to the climate challenge.

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Elevation 210 m

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Location: Valdallière, Vire, Manche, France

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Millennial Yew of Estry

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