Inverpolly Forest

[risby]

Something has been puzzling me since I downloaded this month's wallpaper from the ordnance survey site. They have landscape scenes from around Britain and November's is apparently Inverpolly Forest.

But there aren't any trees!!

Cartographers do not spring to mind as the best examples of the world's greatest humourists but it may be some sort of in-joke. Or maybe the name is historical.

Does anyone know why this arboreal desert should be so named?

 

[fred gordon]

A very common assumption about Scottish forests. The word forest in this case refers to Red Deer Forest and not to the tree kind we are more familier with. We do, of course, have tree forests and, like everywhere else, they are green on the OS map. Hope this helps explain the confusion.