Bilsborrow - Myerscough College (Lancashire)

Coast and Giant Redwood - April 2007

Thanks to Nick for sending photographs of a Coast and several Giant Redwoods at his college in St. Michael's Road. Nick wrote, "Just thought I might update your redwood location list. Most of them seem to be in the southern counties so I took pictures of some specimens from my college arboretum at Myerscough college in Lancashire. I found 1 coast redwood and at least 3 giant redwoods. I'm not exactly sure how tall they were but I would say at least 20 metres tall. There is also a Dawn redwood on site but it is not fully in leaf yet so was not worth sending. There are also Redwoods at Thorpe Perrow Arboretum in Yorkshire which I recently visited." The reason for most locations on the site being from the South of Essex is that it is where I am based, but Nick is the second person to email locations of Redwoods in Lancashire recently so hopefully more will follow.

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* * * Update - February 2022 * * *

Thanks to John who wrote in February 2022 to say; "I have just seen the post showing these trees. I have the honour and happy memory of planting these in the early 1970’s when I was a Horticultural Technician at Myerscough College." Thank you for letting me know about the planting origin of the Redwood trees at Myerscough College, I am very pleased to add the information to the web page. It's great to know a little about the history of these trees.