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Last Ent of Affric is in the Scottish Highlands, United Kingdom.

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Its coordinates are 57.2214°, -5.1064°.

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Forests & woodlands · Scottish Highlands

Last Ent of Affric

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Last Ent of Affric in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.

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Last Ent of Affric is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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The Last Ent of Affric is a notable ancient wych elm located in Highland, Scotland. It is recognized for its unique status as the last survivor of an ancient forest and plays a role in the regeneration of native woodlands in the area.

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The Last Ent of Affric is an ancient elm in the Scottish Highlands, designated a Tree of National Special Interest (TNSI) by the Woodland Trust and named Scotland's Tree of the Year in 2019. It is probably the last surviving tree of an ancient forest, and by virtue of its isolation has remained safe from Dutch elm disease.

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The 'Last Ent of Affric' is a centuries-old Wych elm (Ulmus glabra), named in reference to the tree-creatures of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. Giles Brockman of Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS), who nominated the tree for the Tree of the Year Award 2019, said:<blockquote>Given its location, its isolation - and its peculiar 'face' - it's very easy to imagine it as one of Tolkien's Ents standing sentinel over the rebirth of a new native woodland in Affric.</blockquote>It has a girth of 3.80m at a height of 1.50m. It is located in Gleann na Cìche, a side spur off Glen Affric in the Highlands of Scotland. The Last Ent's exact age is uncertain, but its diameter suggests it is many…

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Coordinates: 57.2214, -5.1064
Address: Glean nan Cìche, Glen Affric near Cannich in the Scottish Highlands
Official site: ati.woodlandtrust.org.uk

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wikidata: Q106841524 (CC0)
wikipedia: Last Ent of Affric (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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