A singer has recorded a song paying tribute to Cumbria's oldest trees.

Dave Camlin, 51, of The Green, Lamplugh, wrote Trees to celebrate trees including Borrowdale yews which are thought to be 1,500 years old.

Dave nominated the Borrowdale yews for inclusion in Cumbria's Top 50 Trees project which is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Members of the public can nominate and then vote for their favourite trees in Cumbria over the next year.

The song was inspired by the medieval Celtic Ogham alphabet and the Celtic name for each letter translates into the name of a tree in English.

For example, the letter beith translates into birch, the letter luis translates into rowan, the letter sail means willow and nion means ash.

Dave said: "Trees are timeless and ancient trees like these connect us back to a deeper part of ourselves.

"It wasn’t until I left West Cumbria to go to college that I realised what a privilege it was to have so much nature around me growing up."

Dave lectures in music at the Sage in Newcastle, Durham University and the Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London.

He added: "Yews do this remarkable thing when they reach a certain age. They send a branch back down to earth to root so they can go on reincarnating themselves.

"Knowing that when beside them you are standing where thousands of your ancestors have stood blows my mind.

"The oak is celebrated as the king of trees but for me the yew represents timelessness because of its age."