The Craigends Yew is recorded in 1897 as being of 21' in girth 1' above the ground, 41.9' in height, 80 yards in circumference, and described as " at 2 ft. into fourteen limbs of upright growth, and from 9 ft. at 3 ft. in girth."
The Yew-trees of Great Britain and Ireland by John Lowe, 1897
