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Ballagan House - Strathblane

Tree ID: 2450

Yews recorded: Notable

Tree girth: 386cm

Girth height: at 120cm

Tree sex: unspecified

Date of visit: 1-Mar-07

Source of earliest mention: 1841: Topography and Natural History - The Rev. H.Buchanan

Notes:

The tree was described in 1841 as ‘in full vigour; possessed of the finest figure; and supposed to be from 500 to 600 years old. Its circumference is 10 feet’. 166 years later its circumference at 4′ has been recorded as 12′ 8” (386cm) .