At 40ft, it is the tallest yew hedge in Britain and keeping it tidy is a mammoth job.
It takes two workers, a cherrypicker and two days of solid work, costing more than £5,000, to give the 300-year-old hedge on Lord Allen Apsley's Bathurst Estate in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, its annual trim. It stretches 150yards along the side of his mansion. 'It's difficult to know exactly how old it is, but we think it was planted in about 1710,' said Lord Apsley, a 47-year-old father-of-two. According to the Guinness Book Of Records, the world's tallest hedge of any type is the beech hedge at Meikleour in Perthshire, which ranges from 80ft to 120ft high.
It takes two workers, a cherrypicker and two days of solid work, costing more than £5,000, to give the 300-year-old hedge on Lord Allen Apsley's Bathurst Estate in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, its annual trim. It stretches 150yards along the side of his mansion. 'It's difficult to know exactly how old it is, but we think it was planted in about 1710,' said Lord Apsley, a 47-year-old father-of-two. According to the Guinness Book Of Records, the world's tallest hedge of any type is the beech hedge at Meikleour in Perthshire, which ranges from 80ft to 120ft high.
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