Public - restricted access (e.g. National Trust property)
Surroundings:
Landscape garden, Woodland
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This tree is known as The Atholl Larch. It was planted in 1738 having been given to Sir Walter Calverley Blackett by The Duke of Atholl, the first person to commercially plant Larch in Scotland. The story goes that “a consignment of young larch seedlings were being transported from Norway via the port of Newcastle for the Duke of Atholl. They were then to be transported by road to his residence at Dunkeld, Perth and Kinross. Where ever the wagon stopped a few trees were left for the owners, hence Wallington acquired 6. However, the duchess of Atholl on a visit in 1938, said there was no truth in this story and that the trees came from Austria. Which would make more sense as they are native to the Alps? In recent times there were two larch trees referred to as the “King and Queen” by Patricia Jennings, the daughter of Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan. Unfortunately, the Queen was demolished by a neighbouring Beech tree which blew over in a storm in the 1960’s, leaving the the King as the last survivor of 6 originally planted at Wallington.
Atkinson's Remarkable Trees, 1874, says-
"Larch, on S.W. side of Chinese Pond and 20 yards from it.
Girth at a height of 5 feet, 9 feet 5 inches : height, 102
feet 6 inches.
Bole about twenty feet, then divides into three or four branches
at twenty feet from top.
There is the stump of another Larch, about 80 yards S. of
last, which was blown down some years since. It was then cut
across with a saw, when its rings shewed it to be one hundred
and thirty-five years old."
Badly damaged by Storm Arwen November 2021. Stump and one branch remains.
This tree is known as The Atholl Larch. It was planted in 1738 having been given to Sir Walter Calverley Blackett by The Duke of Atholl, the first person to commercially plant Larch in Scotland. The story goes that “a consignment of young larch seedlings were being transported from Norway via the port of Newcastle for the Duke of Atholl. They were then to be transported by road to his residence at Dunkeld, Perth and Kinross. Where ever the wagon stopped a few trees were left for the owners, hence Wallington acquired 6. However, the duchess of Atholl on a visit in 1938, said there was no truth in this story and that the trees came from Austria. Which would make more sense as they are native to the Alps? In recent times there were two larch trees referred to as the “King and Queen” by Patricia Jennings, the daughter of Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan. Unfortunately, the Queen was demolished by a neighbouring Beech tree which blew over in a storm in the 1960’s, leaving the the King as the last survivor of 6 originally planted at Wallington.
Atkinson's Remarkable Trees, 1874, says- "Larch, on S.W. side of Chinese Pond and 20 yards from it. Girth at a height of 5 feet, 9 feet 5 inches : height, 102 feet 6 inches. Bole about twenty feet, then divides into three or four branches at twenty feet from top. There is the stump of another Larch, about 80 yards S. of last, which was blown down some years since. It was then cut across with a saw, when its rings shewed it to be one hundred and thirty-five years old."
Badly damaged by Storm Arwen November 2021. Stump and one branch remains.