Photo of St Cuthbert's Church, Lorton, a church in the Lake District, Cumbria, north west England. — © Trevor Harris / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

St Cuthbert's Church, Lorton

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Wordsworth put the great yew of Lorton into his 1804 poem ‘Yew-Trees’, and the ancient tree — reckoned at a thousand years old — still stands in the vale. St Cuthbert’s, the 12th-century parish church, sits between High and Low Lorton in green country between Cockermouth and Buttermere.

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