{"id":808,"date":"2011-06-22T11:21:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T11:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=808"},"modified":"2011-06-24T09:09:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T09:09:07","slug":"how-to-find-the-craigend-yew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=808","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How to Find the Craigends Yew&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230;is the title of a web page that I really, really wish somebody had posted onto the internet *before* we found ourselves wandering around various housing estates, dead-end footpaths, and rarely-used farm tracks on our recent Scottish holiday. Just in case somebody else finds themselves in a similar predicament at some point in the future, and is bashing away at their mobile phone browser in frustration, I thought I&#8217;d put such a page right here. Are you listening, google search engine? Huh? Are you?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hello visitor from the future! Here&#8217;s how to find the Craigends Yew:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From the B790, heading west out of Crosslee&#8230;<br \/>\nLook out for Ardgryff Cresent, to the south of the road<br \/>\nFollow Ardgryff Cresent to it&#8217;s southernmost point. You should see a tarmac path heading into the trees. This is a good place to park. Here&#8217;s the google maps streetview of the place you want:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps?f=q&amp;source=embed&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;aq=&amp;sll=55.908866,-4.442043&amp;sspn=0.465688,1.168671&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Houston,+Johnstone,+United+Kingdom&amp;ll=55.873966,-4.54197&amp;spn=0.000917,0.002283&amp;t=h&amp;z=14&amp;layer=c&amp;cbll=55.864018,-4.530024&amp;panoid=N4xi9GQpW3w7Z5pd2gMJWQ&amp;cbp=12,219.98,,0,14.17&amp;output=svembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(if you can&#8217;t see the embed, here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=55.864018,-4.530024&#038;cbll=55.864018,-4.530024&#038;layer=c&#038;cbp=1,219.97999999999996,,0,14.17&#038;hl=en&#038;gl=uk\">direct link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Follow the tarmac path over the bridge. Turn left. Keep following the path. It branches at a couple of points; always take the left.<\/p>\n<p>5 minutes later, you should find a little stone sign\/info board by the path describing the &#8220;tree&#8221;. It&#8217;s a pretty cool piece of vegetation, covering a 30+ meter radius &#8230; though pretty much impossible to photograph until you&#8217;re in amongst it (due to surrounding trees). Here&#8217;s my feeble attempt to piece some mobile phone snaps together. Artistic interpretation FTW!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?attachment_id=811\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-811\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/craigends-yew-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Craigend Yew\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-811\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/craigends-yew-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/craigends-yew.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(click the pic to embiggen)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and if you ARE a tree-hunting visitor from the future who found this info useful, please say hello below \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is the title of a web page that I really, really wish somebody had posted onto the internet *before* we found ourselves wandering around various housing estates, dead-end footpaths, and rarely-used farm tracks on our recent Scottish holiday. Just in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=808\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bizarre","category-travels","tumblog-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":839,"href":"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}