The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Saturday 1 August 2009 This picture included a reference to Wordsworth's 1803 poem Yew Trees. In fact, the poem's date is disputed The Borrowdale yew, Cumbria But worthier still of note/ Are those Fraternal Four of Borrowdale,/ Joined in one solemn and capacious grove;/ Huge trunks! and each particular trunk a growth/ Of intertwisted fibres serpentine So wrote Wordsworth in his 1803 poem, Yew Trees. One of the quartet fell victim to a storm in 1883 but three still survive in the magical valley of Borrowdale in Cumbria. This yew (Yaxus baccata) can fit four people inside a hollow in its trunk. Another yew singled out by Wordsworth also survived storm damage and still stands in the village of Lorton, Cumbria. It was one of many under which John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, preached

Photograph: /NTPL/Simon Fraser