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For the most part the woods were created about the time Dunnottar House was built in 1806. The House became dilapidated after the Second World War, and many of the trees were felled in 1948/49 despite local efforts to save those closest to the town. Some of the surviving trees were uprooted during the Great Gale of January, 1953, about which time the Forestry Commission acquired the land, and replanted it in the mid-fifties with a view to scenic effect rather than profit.
  
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