The Great British Trees were 50 trees selected by The Tree Council in 2002 to spotlight trees in the United Kingdom in honour of the Queen's Golden Jubilee.^[1]

• Great Yew, a pair of yews now appearing to be a single tree, in Crom Castle, Fermanagh
• Old Homer, Kilbroney Park, Rostrevor

• Granny Pine, a 300-year-old Scots Pine at Glen Affric, Highlands
• Fortingall Yew, a 2,000-3,000-year-old yew in Perth and Kinross
• Arbutus Tree, a tree likely grown from a seed collected in North America by surgeon-botanist Archibald Menzies in the late 1700s near Castle Menzies Gardens NOTE This is not in the Tree Council’s original list

• Parent Larch, a European Larch in the grounds of a Hilton hotel built by the Duke of Atholl in Dunkeld, Perth and Kinross
• A Douglas-fir, in the grounds of Scone Palace where David Douglas was born, in Perth and Kinross
• A silver fir, in Ardkinglas Woodland Garden, Argyll
• Capon Tree, an oak in what used to be the Jedforest, Jedburgh, Borders
• The Craigends Yew, a 600-year-old layering Taxus baccata in Houston, Renfrewshire NOTE This is not in the Tree Council’s original list.

• Ley's Whitebeam, one of only 16 Sorbus leyana (a type of whitebeam) growing wild anywhere, in Merthyr Tydfil
• Pontfadog Oak, with a girth of 12.9 metres (42 ft), the largest Sessile oak in Wales, in Pontfadog, Wrexham. The tree was blown over by the wind in 2013.
• Llangernyw Yew, the oldest tree in Europe (Between 4,000 and 5,000 years old),^[3] a yew in the churchyard of St Digain’s, Llangernyw, Conwy
• Defynnog Yew, Powys, Wales. A tree once estimated at 5,000 years old with evidence now suggesting a maximum of 2,500. NOTE it was not in the original list.

• List of individual trees
• Great Trees of London
• Tree of the Year