Ancient tree · Medieval
Birnam Oak
Perth and Kinross
Birnam Oak, sometimes known as Macbeth's Oak, stands on the south bank of the River Tay and is associated with the surviving edge of Birnam Wood.
- Near Birnam
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Ancient & notable trees of Britain & Ireland
Ancient yews, oaks and the named trees that have stood as landmarks and living memory for centuries.
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Capon Tree
Scottish Borders
Concrete, brick and timber now hold together a sessile oak reckoned at about a thousand years old: one of the last trees of the Jedforest, and the…
- Near Jedburgh
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Fortingall Yew
Perth and Kinross
Fortingall Yew is a named yew tree beside the church at Fortingall in Perth and Kinross. Its precise age is not independently confirmed here.
- Near Fortingall
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Neil Gow's Oak
Perth and Kinross
A bench beneath this oak was engraved with a line from a Michael Marra song about sitting under it with Niel Gow's ghost. A falling branch destroye…
- Near Dunkeld
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Bickering Bush
East Ayrshire
Bickering Bush preserves the memory of a named hawthorn, its lost site tied to Caprington Castle lands and Wallace tradition.
- Near East Ayrshire
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Birnam Sycamore
Perth and Kinross
Birnam Sycamore stands near Birnam Oak on the south bank of the River Tay and is associated with the surviving edge of Birnam Wood.
- Near Birnam
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Ding Dong tree
East Lothian
The Ding Dong tree is a copper beech that became a school landmark, won Scotland’s Tree of the Year and shaped children’s outdoor life.
- Near East Lothian
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Great Yew of Ormiston
East Lothian
The Great Yew of Ormiston is a layering yew first recorded in 1474 and regarded as a significant surviving tree in Scotland.
- Near East Lothian
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Katie Wearie's Tree
Perth and Kinross
Katie Wearie’s Tree was a named Linlithgow memorial to a drover girl, preserved in an early twentieth-century postcard even though little else is k…
- Near Perth and Kinross
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Lady's Tree
Perth and Kinross
An osprey called Lady nested in this Scots pine for twenty-four years, laid 71 eggs and raised 50 chicks. The tree is named after the bird.
- Near Perth and Kinross
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Queen Mary's Thorn
Fife
Queen Mary’s Thorn keeps royal memory alive in St Andrews through a living tree, while the absence of contemporary evidence makes its famous planti…
- Near Fife
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Ancient tree · Medieval
The Balmerino Sweet Chestnut
Fife
The Balmerino Sweet Chestnut makes former monastic grounds a record of living heritage: inventory data, exceptional girth and national tree designa…
- Near Balmerino
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Ancient tree · Medieval
The Craigends Yew
Renfrewshire
A yew that has cloned itself into a grove: branches bending to the ground, rooting, and sending up new stems, until the crown reached a hundred met…
- Near Renfrewshire
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Ancient tree · Medieval
The Last Ent of Affric
Highland
An elm that outlived both the forest around it and the disease that took most of its kind, saved by standing somewhere nothing would sensibly have…
- Near Highland
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Ancient tree · Medieval
The Skipinnish Oak
Highland
A four-hundred-year-old oak that nobody knew was there. It took a ceilidh band, a woodland conference and a walk the morning after the gig for the…
- Near Achnacarry
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Wallace Oak (Elderslie)
Renfrewshire
By the mid-nineteenth century a Scotsman's snuff box was expected to contain a fragment of this oak. The relic trade is what killed it.
- Near Renfrewshire
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Wallace Oak (Port Glasgow)
Inverclyde
Although the Wallace story cannot be confirmed, the lost oak’s storm-felled remains and memorial show how a local legend became durable civic memory.
- Near Inverclyde
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Wallace Oak (Torwood)
Falkirk
The lost Wallace Oak shows how a woodland landmark became a national relic, its unproven Wallace tradition driving souvenir cutting and an unusuall…
- Near Falkirk
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Wallace Yew (Elderslie)
Renfrewshire
Parish records of the 1700s already call it 'this ancient tree'. Arson in 1978 and storms in 2005 let in a fungus that is now killing it; twelve cu…
- Near Renfrewshire
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Bruce Tree
West Dunbartonshire
An oak said to have been planted by Robert the Bruce, burnt down by an arsonist in May 2004: and then cut up and carved into a replica of his throne.
- Near West Dunbartonshire
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Eppie Callum's Oak
Argyll and Bute
Eppie Callum’s Oak is a named living landmark whose value lies in the survival of local landscape memory, even though its age and namesake remain u…
- Near Argyll and Bute
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Robert the Bruce Yew
Argyll and Bute
The Robert the Bruce Yew preserves a royal association in local tradition while clearly separating that enduring landscape memory from any unverifi…
- Near Arrochar
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Cloughmore
Down
Cloughmore pairs 10,000-year-old glacial transport with a mountain legend: one huge boulder gives Rostrevor both a geological landmark and a Fionn…
- Near Rostrevor
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