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== Pontfadog Oak ==
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Known as "Wales's national tree", the Pontfadog Oak was a sessile oak considered to be the oldest oak tree in the UK. Located near [[Chirk]] in North Wales, its girth was measured as over {{convert|53|ft|m|order=flip}} in 1881 and it was understood to be over 1,200&nbsp;years old, an age that was due to regular [[pollarding]] for much of its life. The hollow trunk had a girth of {{convert|42|ft|5|in|m|sigfig=3|order=flip|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/apr/28/pontfadog-oak-revered-loved-mourned|title=The Pontfadog oak was the oldest of the old, revered, loved ... and now mourned|last=Vidal|first=John|date=28 April 2013|work=[[The Observer]]|accessdate=1 May 2013}}</ref>

The tree was lost in April 2013 when it blew down in high winds.<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 April 2013 |title=Pontfadog Oak: 1,200-year-old tree toppled by winds |publisher=[[BBC News Online]] |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22202815}}</ref> However, [[the Crown Estate]] propagated a sapling from the original tree and planted it in [[Windsor Great Park]].<ref>{{cite web |title=One of the world's largest and oldest oak trees returns to Chirk Castle |url=https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/services/media/one-of-the-worlds-largest-and-oldest-oak-trees-returns-to-chirk-castle |website=National Trust |access-date=29 April 2023}}</ref> A further five saplings have been cloned from the Pontfadog Oak, three of which will be planted at the [[National Botanic Garden of Wales]], with the other two going to sites near Pontfadog; one at [[Chirk Castle]] and the other at [[Erddig]], as part of a woodland memorial to those who died during the [[COVID-19]] pandemic.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Morris |first1=Steven |title=North Wales' ancient felled Pontfadog oak returns in five cloned saplings |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/06/pontfadog-oak-returns-five-cloned-saplings-north-wales-ceiriog-valley |access-date=29 April 2023 |work=The Guardian }}</ref>