No tree surgeon listed in Balquhidder yet.

A tree surgeon carries out specialist tree work - pruning, crown reduction, felling, stump grinding and emergency storm damage clearance.

Trees near buildings, power lines or boundaries need professional attention - chainsaw work at height is not a DIY job under any circumstances.

Check they carry public liability insurance and ask whether the trees are covered by a Tree Preservation Order or are in a conservation area before any work begins.

Balquhidder is a glen and scattered settlement in the southern Highlands, reached by a single-track road off the A84 near Lochearnhead.

The ruined church in the glen contains the grave of Rob Roy MacGregor, who lived and died in the Braes of Balquhidder - a place that still feels as remote and wild as it did in his time.

Loch Voil stretches westward through the glen, backed by steep hills and native woodland and the area is popular with walkers seeking quiet and solitude.

It is one of the most beautiful and least visited corners of the Stirling council area, with a quality of silence that is hard to find elsewhere.

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Stirling is a council area stretching from the city of Stirling in the heart of Scotland's central belt northward and westward into the Trossachs, the Breadalbane hills and some of the most dramatic Highland landscape in the country.

The city of Stirling sits at the historic crossing point of the River Forth, the strategic gateway between the Lowlands and the Highlands - a position that made it one of the most fought-over places in Scottish history.

North of the city, the character changes rapidly: the lowland farmland of the Forth valley gives way to the lochs, forests and mountains of the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park and further north to the remote glens of Breadalbane.

The council area takes in everything from suburban commuter towns like Bridge of Allan and Dunblane to Highland villages like Killin, Crianlarich and Tyndrum - an extraordinary range of landscape and settlement within a single local authority.

Transport links are strong around the city, with the M9, M80 and several rail lines converging on Stirling, though the Highland communities to the north rely on the A84, A85 and the scenic West Highland railway line.