Bleeding Yew of Nevern

The second yew on the right as you walk up to St Brynach's church weeps a dark red-brown sap from a broken stub, and thousands of people come every year to see it. The Ancient Yew Group is blunt about the avenue it stands in. These yews are of no great age, it says, and are on its list only because of the bleeding one. Why it bleeds is the question the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park asks on its own page about the tree, along with when it will stop. Legend has its answers. One links it to the Crucifixion. Another says it will bleed until a Welsh prince rules again from Nevern Castle, on the hill above the village. The churchyard has older witnesses than the tree. A carved Celtic cross dates from the late tenth or early eleventh century, and the Vitalianus stone, inscribed in Latin and ogham, stands nearby. The church itself was built around 1380 on the site of St Brynach's early foundation. The avenue is sometimes put at 600 to 700 years, a figure we could not trace to a firm source, and nobody has recorded this tree's girth. If you can add either, tell us. Nothing else in the churchyard looks like it.