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Did you know that the tallest tree in Britain is a fir tree in Ardkinglas Woodland Garden measured at 212 feet in 2010? The tree was only planted (as a sapling) in the 25 acres of woodlands of Ardkinglas House in about 1875. It is a Grand Fir (obviously in more ways than one), Abies Grandis.

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