117. Beauly Sycamore
A wonderful setting awaits for pilgrims to one of Scotland’s great sycamores.
Beyond Beauly Priory’s kirkyard gates – and the bleached remains of a once monumental wych elm that succumbed to Dutch elm disease in 2020 – one of Scotland’s most impressive sycamores can be seen standing close to the priory ruins. A giant in height and girth, it is in rude health, its irregular form conveying the centuries it has grown in this bucolic spot overlooking the broad, fertile floodplain of the Beauly River.
Species details
Sycamore maple
Acer pseudoplatanus
Where to find it
Beauly Priory, Beauly IV4 7DY
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More sycamores
A couple of ex-sycamores
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A prodigiously lovely sycamore. There's a friendly spirit to them, but despite that, it seems (from the referenced reading) they are often slighted and felled willy-nilly. A shame!