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ifc was twelve feet. The famous Wallace Oak at 

 Torwood had a diameter of eleven or twelve feet, 

 and was said to be the largest Oak in Scotland. 

 "William Wallace slept in its hollow trunk whilst 

 his army lay in the adjoining woods, but not a 

 vestige of the tree now remains, though Gilpin 

 alludes to it as existing when he wrote in 1781, 

 and ten years before that, its girth was twenty- 

 two feet. Queen Elizabeth's Oak at Hevening- 

 ham, in Suffolk, is still standing. In Gilpin' s 

 time it measured thirty-five feet in girth, and it 

 was hollow in the time of Queen Elizabeth, who 

 used to stand in its hollow trunk and shoot at 

 the passing deer. The Squitchbank Oak, at 

 Bagot's Park, near Lichfield, Staffordshire, was, 

 Sir T. D. Lander stated, in 1834, forty- three feet 

 in circumference at the roots, and twenty-one feet 

 nine inches five feet up. The whole tree was 

 said to contain 1012 feet of solid timber. The 

 Salcey Forest Oak in Northamptonshire measured 

 forty- six feet ten inches in circumference in 1794. 

 The Bull Oak, in Wedgenock Park, Warwickshire, 

 measured in September, 1783, at one yard from 

 the ground, thirty-four feet, and at one foot, forty 



