The tallest tree in the UK is a The Douglas Fir in the Powys
nature reserve measured at 62.5m (205ft) - and it shares this
status with two similar trees in Scotland.
Turnstone

pedant mode
If the tree in Powys 'shares this status with two similar
trees', then it isn't 'the tallest tree in the UK'; it is one of
the three tallest trees in the UK.
/pedant mode

However it didn't retain that distinction for long.

The news item which reported the tree in Powys was on 1 July
2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4640747.stm

A further press release on 19 December 2005 records that it has
been superseded
http://www.forestry.gov.uk/NewsRele....2570D8003965E9

Looks as if someone overlooked the fact that trees continue to
grow!

Anne