Torwood

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Torwood, a village in Dunipace parish, Stirlingshire, 2¼ miles NNW of Larbert station. To the S are the ruins of Torwood Castle, supposed to have been built by one of the Baillies about the middle of the 16th century, and surrounded by the Torwood, a remnant of the ancient Caledonian Forest. The true ' Wallace Oak ' here is gone for ever, though a shoot of it was thriving so late as 1835. The so-called ` Wallace Oak ' in the Carbrook policies cannot be more than 300 years old; but an old thorn near it was very possibly the identical tree beneath which Donald Cargill excommunicated Charles II., Sept. 1680 (Trans. Highl. and Ag. Soc., 1881, p. 204).—Ord. Sur., sh. 31, 1867.

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