This week Neil’s journey takes us to one of the most beautiful glens in Scotland where we discover, what is believed to be, the oldest living thing in Europe - the Fortingall Yew.
The legendary Fortingall Yew nestles at the eastern end of Glen Lyon – the glen which Sir Walter Scott called the ‘longest, loneliest and loveliest in Scotland’. Many experts put the age of the yew at 9000 years old, which means it was a thousand years old before the British Isles were even created. The tree has seen so much history. Folklore in this part of Scotland has it that Pontious Pilate was born here and as a young child would shelter under the Fortingall Yew before he was whisked off to Rome and into the history books. What’s certain is, the tree and the glen are somewhere that have always mattered to our ancestors, a place that invites deep contemplation as you stand there and mark the long passage of time
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90 D-Day, Devon
89 Winston Churchill, Blenheim Palace
88 - Building To Rule the Waves, Clydebank
87 A graveyard beneath the sea, Scapa Flow
86 Remembering the Dead, The Cenotaph
85 Your Country Needs You! World War I
84 World War I, Isle of Skye
83 Titanic, Belfast
82 Breeding Babies for Success, Cardiff
81 Great British Seaside, Scarborough
80 A Deadly Tug of War! Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland
79 Splitting the Atom, Rutherford building, Manchester
78 Great Victorian Endeavour, White Cliffs of Dover, Kent
77 Disaster at sea! Eyemouth, Berwickshire
76 Ireland’s Teardrop, Fastnet Rock
75 The Great Hunger - An Gorta Mór, County Cork
74 The Tolpuddle Martyrs, Dorset
73 Discovering Dinosaurs, The Jurassic Coast, Dorset
72 The Bronte Sisters, Haworth, Yorkshire
71. Saving Lives at Sea, Smalls Lighthouse, Pembrokeshire
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