Jedforest

Jedforest

Jedforest is an Historic Forest in the Scottish Borders.

Jedburgh was a heavily wooded district in former days.One of the giant trees of old Jedforest still survives to this day, the widespreading "Capon tree," reputed to be 2000 years old and the "King of the Woods," a beautiful and still vigorous oak, with a girth of 17 feet, measured four feet from the ground.


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