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90 L. Corbett 1989 There are notes on the Oak, Torwood, the Blairs … in Forrester’s The Forresters, a Lowland Clan and its Lands. 1996 A ‘reconnaissance’ of the Wallacebank Wood was made in August by Angus Smith, warden of this SWT Nature Reserve,and Mackay and Corbett of FNH – W. F. Howie was unfortunately unable to attend. It was proposed that the ‘tree’ might be considered a bit more left (north) and within the Nature Reserve rather than on the boundary, which, since the 1830s Woodside plan (FNH 21 p70), has had additional plantings some ten meters wide Several current coppiced oaks just within the wood could be seen as possible sites of an ancient large circumference oak. (Smith) Notes and References (1) Forrester, D. I. G. 1998. The Wallace Oak, Torwood – and Roy’s Military Survey. Forth Naturalist and Historian 21,63-70. (2) Harrison, John G. 1999. The Torwood and the Wallace Oak; some early records. Ibid 22. (3) Anderson, W. 1863. The Scottish Nation. Fullarton. Edinburgh. (4) Recently one Wallace artifact remarkably recovered by the Smith Art Gallery and Museum was one much sought, but feared lost, made from the Elderslie Wallace Oak – a picture frame housing six Wallace supportive letters by notable European patriots, including Garibaldi. This was a feature at the grand opening of the Stirling Wallace monument in 1886, but long lost. (5) A possible wording for a hoped for ?Millennium? plaque to commemorate the Wallace Oak, Torwood – “In this wood was the legendary Wallace Oak, Torwood – a refuge of the hero, Guardian of Scotland, Sir William Wallace, particularly after the battle of Falkirk, 22 July 1298. This commemorative plaque is the long time ambition of Colin D. I. G. Forrester, ancestor of the ancient royal foresters, the Forresters of Corstorphine, and founder of the Clan Forrester. He researched and traced the site of this legendary tree, as reported by the Scotsman of 8th April 1985, and in The Forth Naturalist and Historian volumes 21 and 22, 1998 and 1999”. (6) Smith, Angus. 1999. Wallacebank Wood wildlife reserve-1986-99. Forth Naturalist and Historian 22. (7) Ross, David R. 1999. On the Trail of William Wallace. John Donald, Edinburgh. (8) While little of the great forest of Tor Wood remains today, the area is still patched with woodland. It has a rich history, on which Colin Forrester has a paper in progress. As Nigel Tranter says in his 1971 book The Heartland, the Queen’s Scotland, Hodder & Stoughton, “Scotland would not have been the same without the Tor Wood.”
Appendix Wallace Oak: Supplement 91 Key list by date 1628 Xmas day … mosse disaster 1643 Jesuit priest 1687 Deed/contract … sale of wood, Torwood 1689 Quaich … Glasgow … 1911 Exhibition 1712 London Spy 1771 Namsmyth painting … illus. 1776 Road map, Torwood … illus. 1782 Snuff box … Edinburgh Goldsmiths to Buchan 1792 Snuff box … Buchan to Washington … illus. 1794 Old Statistical Account 1795 Quaich … Glasgow … 1911 Exhibition 1805 Coppicing … Beauties of Scotland 1812 Snuff box … Russell … to Prince … illus. 1814 Staff … Dryburgh Statue … Buchan 1815 Quaich … NMS … 1817 Nimmo’s History … 2nd edition 1810-20 Painting … Thomson … illus. 1827 Walter Scott 1830 Woodside plan 1840 Pencilling of Wallace Oak site 1841 New Statistical Account 1850 Pencilling site of Oak 1866 Side board … Glasgow 1880 Nimmo’s History 1882 Poetical Musings 1892 Porteous’s Scottish Chiefs 1903 Crome’s Ordnance Survey Gazetteer 1908 Gibson’s Land and Lairds 1982 Glenbervie Golf Club’s Jubilee booklet 1986 Wallacebank Wood … SWT Wildlife Reserve and coppicing … illus. 1989 Notes from Forrester 1996 Wallacebank Wood … recce
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