Trees
The Beverley and District Civic Society has always been aware of the importance of trees to
the town, in fact in 1967 the first C.S Report on the Trees of Beverley was published, which
itemised all the existing mature trees and led to tree preservation orders being placed on
many of them. The photographs are thankfully very similar to how things are now in central Beverley, but there are some notable losses where the long standing woody residents have been
replaced by concrete, the soft edges of a market town removed. (Manor Rd, Wylies Rd.
Lairgate)
In 2021 we applied for an East Riding Community Grant of £5,000 to celebrate the 1300 th
anniversary of St. John of Beverley. We worked on the basis of planting 1300 trees, and
managed this by planting the Archery Field with Humber Forest, replacing trees on the
Westwood with the Pasture Masters and gave away fruit trees for member’s gardens.
The following year, and this year with the help of grants from ERYC and Tesco’s, we have
worked with ERYC Forestry to plant trees in residential areas of the town to provide the
landscaping benefits that trees give to a neighbourhood. We hope these new additions will be appreciated and blossom for many years to come.
When the ground dries out, we have some oak trees (with stock proof fencing) to be
planted on Figham, along the old tree lines, which we are doing in partnership with the
Pasture Masters.
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