It’s a YES. Argyll has the tallest tree in the UK – see it from Dunans Castle in Glendaruel
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For Argyll reported a few days ago on the Scotland-wide measuring of candidates for the title of Britain’s Tallest Tree. A specialist team from Sparsholt College in Hampshire toured the various candidates, assessing, climbing and measuring.
The results came in this evening and it’s very good news for Glendaruel. It has been officially confirmed that the Stronardron Douglas Fir, planted by Archie Fletcher of Dunans Castle in 1849, now owned by Mr Robin Creelman and viewable only from Dunans Castle – which is open to the public – is the new champion tree.
All the measurements were taken from the tip of the tree to the highest point of the base, except for the Inverness Douglas Fir which came from from an average of nine valid ground based measurements. The final league table of measured candidates was:
- 63.79m Stronardron Douglas Fir, Glendaruel, Argyll
- 62.70m Diana’s Grove Grand Fir, Blair Castle, Perth
- 62.02m Dughall Mor Douglas Fir, Inverness, Inverness
- 61.31m Hermitage Douglas Fir, Dunkeld, Perth
These official results confirm that Scotland has the two tallest trees in the UK, the Stronardron Douglas Fir in Glendaruel, the new champion; and the Diana’s Grove Grand Fir at Blair castle, the second tallest.
Visiting champion trees is a much like hill walkers fascination with Munro-bagging. Those wanting to see the new champion at home in Argyll are advised that the only place from which it can be seen is from Dunans Castle which is open to the public.
Read the full details of the measurement adventure at the Dunans Heritage Project website.
The copyright to all of the photographs accompanying this article – which record aspects of the official measuring process – is held by LW Images and they are reproduced here with permission.
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February 23rd, 2009 at 11:27 pm
We visited Dunans Castle last summer and wondered about that tree. It is huge and you get great views of it. We walked round the grounds but couldn’t find a way to get to the tree, there was road that looked like it went the right way, but it was blocked by a gate with barbed wire all over it and we didn’t think we should try to climb over it, which was a pity becaise my girlfriend wanted to get a picture of me leaning against it. Anyway it is brilliant that it won.
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June 7th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Nice find.
Keep an eye out though.
Some say that “there is always a bigger one” out there.
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