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
Scotland · Region
Ancient places in Renfrewshire
5 places in Renfrewshire, from the deepest prehistory to the medieval world.
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Ancient tree · Medieval
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 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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Sacred place · Medieval
Castle Semple Collegiate Church
Renfrewshire
A church served by a college of priests, near the eastern end of Castle Semple Loch.
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Sacred place · Medieval
Paisley Abbey
Renfrewshire
Robert II was born here by caesarean section in 1316, after his mother fell from her horse nearby. A stone marker stands where she came off.
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