A group of Lake District trees are in the running for a national title from the Woodland Trust.
The trust has revealed the 10 finalists in its Tree of the Year competition, which have been shortlisted by a panel of experts.
The winner will go on to represent the UK in the next European Tree of the Year Competition.
The Borrowdale Yews at Seathwaite are among the finalists.
Around 2,000 years old, they were immortalised by William Wordsworth in his 1803 poem Yew Trees.
The trees featured in the works of others including Francis Frith photographs, John Lowe’s 1896 book The Yew-Trees of Great Britain and Ireland and a 1922 watercolour by Alfred Heaton Cooper.
Wordsworth referred to four yews, but only three still stand after one was lost in the Great Storm of 1884, though its remains still rest alongside its three companions.
They appear to be separate trees, but DNA research has proven that they actually all grew from the same original tree.
The other finalists are:
- King of Limbs, Wiltshire
- Wilfred Owen Sycamore, Edinburgh
- Tree of Peace and Unity, Antrim
- Lollipop Tree, Salisbury Plain
- The Beatles’ cedar tree, Chiswick House and Gardens
- Knole Park oak, Knole Park, Kent
- Bradgate Park’s oldest oak, Leicester
- Lonely Tree, Llyn Padarn, Llanberis
- Argyle Street ash, Glasgow
