Historic Dunkeld has an artsy atmosphere that nurtures potters, jewellers and painters while Birnam wood is mentioned by Shakespeare
Big Tree Country swirls with myth and mystery, its landscapes evocative and inspirational. Less than an hour after collecting the car keys from the car rental desk at Edinburgh Airport on a dreich winter’s day, there is a change. Heading north, the motorway begins to swing left and right, negotiating folds of spruced-up, emerald-green hills. In the distance, snow looms high.– in Perth and Kinross than anywhere else in the UK. It also claims a section of the longest river in Scotland, the Tay.
Close to the Tay in the village of Birnam is a “living legend”, a sprawling and indomitable 500-year-old sessile oak now supported by crutches that is thought to be the lone survivor of the Birnam wood prophesied in Shakespeare’sThe River Tay and Dunkeld in Perthshire Many of those unruly self-seeding spruce are being felled and replanted with native Scots pine, silver birch, rowan, alder, holly and juniper trees. Over time, a regenerated native woodland should help wildlife flourish. There’s already a pair of nesting ospreys and beavers on the loch.Spencer-Churchill wanted to create a base for hikes out around the woodland and water. It’s only 20 minutes’ walk from Dunkeld, and yet you feel completely remote.
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