Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Tour Scotland photograph of the Duke Of Kent Lifeboat, at Tayport, Kingdom of Fife, across from Dundee, Scotland. This is the former Rother Class RNLI Lifeboat built by William Osborne of Littehampton and was at the Eastbourne Station from 1979 until 1993 then a Relief Boat 1993 to 1994 before being sold out of service. She then became a Survey Vessel out of Tayport in North Fife.
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Tour Scotland photograph of Liff Church, near Dundee, Scotland. Liff Church was built in 1839 by William MacKenzie and is a rectangular plan Gothic structure with a tower and spire at the east end.
Tour Scotland photograph of Liff Graveyard, near Dundee, Scotland.
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Tour Scotland photograph of a Blacksmith Gravestone in Liff graveyard cemetery near Dundee, Scotland. For several centuries the name Liff denoted a large area, not a village. It comprised the parish of Liff together with its united parishes of Benvie, Invergowrie, Logie, and Lochee, and so included substantial parts of the city of Dundee. The village around the church was known as Kirkton of Liff or simply the Kirkton. An ancient site in the village called Hurly Hawkin was regarded for several centuries as a palace of King Alexander I.
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Tour Scotland photograph of the McCaskie Celtic Cross gravestone in Liff graveyard cemetery, near Dundee, Scotland. Roy Whyte McCaskie, Military Cross and Bar. Lieutenant, 6th (Morayshire) Battalion (Territorial Force), Seaforth Highlanders. Wounded at Marvaux near Rheims and died at Le Havre on 5th August 1918. Age 28. Son of Mary Leitch McCaskie, nee Spiers, of Rose Place, Elgin, and the late Alexander McCaskie (Schoolmaster, Registrar and Session Clerk at Liff for 23 years); brother of Frederick M. McCaskie.
Citation for the Military Cross in the London Gazette, dated 9th January 1918 (Gazetted 26th September 1917), states: " 2nd Lt. Roy Whyte McCaskie, Seaforth Highlanders. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during an attack on the enemy's line. He displayed the finest qualities of leadership, again and again capturing enemy machine guns and teams which were opposing his advance. He broke through all opposition and gained his objective up to time, having led his men so well and confidently that his company suffered very few casualties. His courage and utter disregard of danger inspired his men in the highest degree. "
Citation for a Bar to the Military Cross in the London Gazette, dated 15th October 1918, states: " Lt. Roy Whyte McCaskie, M.C., Seaforth Highlanders. For conspicuous gallantry, during an attack. He led forward his company under intense machine gun and artillery fire, and personally accounted for two of the enemy with his revolver before being wounded himself. He set his men a splendid example of coolness under fire and contempt of danger. "
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The Isle of Skye occupies an almost mythical place in the minds of many Scots. Romantic castles, magnificent sea-scapes, the alpine peaks of the Cuillin Ridge, marching pipe bands, scattered white crofters' cottages and a bloody history; the island has all these and more. This book features 40 moderate walks that take in much of this celebrated landscape, but reveal hidden gems too. In spite of its popularity Skye is still rich in undiscovered treasures, from coastal caves and arches, ruined villages cruelly cleared of their inhabitants, to fossilised dinosaur footprints and a rich array of wildlife. Written by Skye residents Paul and Helen Webster, these walks will reveal both the wild and gentler sides of this dramatic landscape. Isle of Skye: 40 Coast and Country Walks (Pocket Mountains).
The Storr is a rocky hill on the Trotternish peninsula of the Isle of Skye. There are a number of weirdly shaped rock pinnacles, the remnants of ancient landslips on The Storr. One of the most famous of these is known as the Old Man of Storr.
Tour Scotland photograph of Uig Bay, Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. The village of Uig lies in the sheltered Uig bay near the north end of the Trotternish peninsula on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. From its sheltered port, Caledonian MacBrayne ferries run to Tarbert on Harris and Lochmaddy on North Uist providing links with the Outer Hebrides.
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Tour Scotland photograph St Margaret's Hope, South Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland. St Margaret's Hope, known locally as The Hope is situated off Water Sound at the head of a sheltered bay on the northern coast of the island of South Ronaldsay, it is connected to the Orkney Mainland by the A961 road across the Churchill Barriers. The Hope is South Ronaldsay's main village, and is named either after Margaret, Maid of Norway, who may have died there, or St. Margaret, Queen of Scotland, the wife of King Malcolm III.
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Tour Scotland photograph of Cantick Head Lighthouse, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Cantick Head Lighthouse is situated at the tip of the Walls peninsula attached to the island of Hoy overlooking Cantick Sound and the southern entrance to Scapa Flow in the Pentland Firth. The light was first exhibited on the night of 15 July 1858. A fog horn was established in October 1913 and discontinued in 1987. The light was automated in 1991.
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Tour Scotland photograph of Muckle Flugga Lighthouse, north of Unst in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. Muckle Flugga, a small rocky island, is home to the Muckle Flugga Lighthouse, built by Thomas and David Stevenson in 1854, originally to protect ships during the Crimean War. Muckle Flugga was one of the few lighthouses in Scotland which had a separate shore station that served as accommodation for the lighthouse keepers when they were off duty, similar to Sule Skerry and its shore station in Stromness, Orkney. The shore station was sold off when the lighthouse was automated.
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Tour Scotland photograph of Ardnamurchan Lighthouse, Lochaber, Scotland. Ardnamurchan lighthouse is a 36 metre tall, pink granite tower built in 1849 by Alan Stevenson. It is the only lighthouse in the UK built in the Egyptian style. The light was automated in 1988 and is now operated remotely by the Northern Lighthouse Board from Edinburgh.
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Tour Scotland photograph of fishing boats and the Sound Of Eriskay from South Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. South Uist was clearly home to a thriving Neolithic community. The island is covered in archaeological sites including chambered tombs, Beaker sites, a Bronze Age hoard, roundhouses, brochs, cairns, ogham inscriptions, Viking settlements, medieval longhouses and post-medieval industry. Bornais on South Uist was the largest Viking settlement known in Scotland. After the Norse occupation, South Uist was held by the MacDonalds of Clan Ranald who made a good living from kelp harvesting owing to the demand for kelp around the turn of the 19th century.
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Tour Scotland photograph of two Eriskay ponies on moorland South Uist, Scotland. The Eriskay Pony is a breed of pony from Scotland. It is generally grey in color, and has a dense, waterproof coat that protects it in harsh weather. The breed developed in ancient times in the Hebrides islands in Scotland, and a small population remained pure and protected from crossbreeding by the remoteness of the islands.
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View Larger Map Street view of the cemetery, Island of Eriskay, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Island of 'love lilt' and setting of novel Whisky Galore, which was based on 1941 event when SS Politician foundered off coast with thousands of bottles of whisky. Pink sea convolvulus flowers supposed to have been planted by Bonnie Prince Charlie when he landed on the island on way to Scotland.
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View Larger Map Street view of Barra airport, Isle of Barra, Scotland. Located near Northbay the airport uses the beach called An Trà igh Mhòr, in English; The Big Beach, as a runway. Planes can only land and take off at low tide meaning that the timetable varies. Barra's airport is the only airport in the world to have scheduled flights landing on a beach.
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Tour Scotland photograph of Glen Brittle, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Glen Brittle with Allt Coir a Mhadaidh stream and Sgurr Thuilm, Black Cuillins, Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides.
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View Larger Map Street view of Isle of Jura Distillery, Island Of Jura, Scotland. The first official distillery on Jura was built in 1810, but there is evidence that some distilling took place on the island as far back as 1502. The distillery has been expanded over the years but still occupies the same site, draws its water from the same natural source, and remains the only distillery on the island.
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Tour Scotland photograph of Cill Chriosd graveyard, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Records from 1913 show that there were originally a pair of unusual grave markers in the cemetery. one dedicated to Chief Lachlan Mor, the other possibly dating from the pre-Christian era. However, both have since vanished. Most graves are connected to Clan MacKinnon, and are from the 18th and 19th centuries. One memorial, in the inner wall of the burial enclosure, is for Charles Third, who was apparently born in Corry near Broadford as a MacKinnon but later died in Australia after emigrating. A worn medieval slab carved with an ornate cross is located in the south corner of the graveyard. The churchyard also has an amorial stone, as well as a possible fragment of the necking and lower arms of a crude cross, with one side plane and the other side bearing two animals carved into a relief on the lower portion. The graveyard also contains a slab of slate with a foliated cross, with one side preserved but the other side worn away.
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View Larger Map Street view of Bunnahabhain Distillery, Islay, Scotland. Situated in the North East of the hebridean island of Islay, the tiny village of Bunnahabhain was first established in 1881 to house workers from the malt whisky distillery which stands there to this day and still employs the majority of the inhabitants of the village. The distillery in the village produces The Bunnahabhain (Boon-a-havn) which is one of the milder Islay whiskies available and its taste varies greatly from other spirits to be found on the island of Islay, off the west coast of Scotland. The distillery was built in 1881 and sits below the northeast tip of the island just north of Port Askaig. It overlooks a narrow belt of water, the Sound of Islay, with a view of the neighbouring island of Jura, which also has a working distillery, and its famous hills, the Paps of Jura.
View Larger Map Street view of Bruichladdich Distillery, Islay, Scotland. Bruichladdich Distillery is a Scotch whisky distillery on the isle of Islay. Bruichladdich was built in 1881 by the brothers Robert William and John Gourlay Harvey on the shore of Loch Indaal, on the Rinns of Islay, the westernmost part of the island.
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View Larger Map Street view of Bowmore Distillery, Islay, Scotland. Bowmore is a distillery that produces scotch whisky on the isle of Islay, an island of the Inner Hebrides. The distillery, which lies on the South Eastern shore of Loch Indaal, is one of the oldest in Scotland, and is said to have been established in 1779.
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Tour Scotland photograph of old quarry workers cottages at Ellenabeich, Easedale, Seil Island, near Oban, Scotland. The main settlement on Seil is the former slate mining village Ellenabeich, where parts of Ring of Bright Water were filmed. The book, Ring of Bright Water, by Gavin Maxwell, inspired a generation of naturalists and was one of the most popular wildlife books ever written. Gavin Maxwell was the youngest son of Lieutenant Colonel Aymer Maxwell and Lady Mary Percy, fifth daughter of the seventh Duke of Northumberland. His paternal grandfather, Sir Herbert Maxwell, was an archaeologist, politician and natural historian.
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Tour Scotland photograph of Lonbain, North of Applecross, Wester Ross, Scotland. A ruined crofting village. Evidence of the infamous Highland Clearances.
Tour Scotland photograph of Carbost Church, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Carbost is a village on the south shore of Loch Harport. Carbost becomes a tourist hub in summer months due to the presence of the Talisker Whisky Distillery which is also one of the main employers in village along with the local pub. Carbost lies around 2.5 miles away from Portnalong. The Cuillin Mountains can be seen in the background.
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Tour Scotland photograph of Ornsay Lighthouse on Eilean Sionnach, Isle of Skye, Scotland. The Ornsay Lighthouse is on a small island called Eilean Sionnach, located to the south east of Isle Ornsay in the Sound of Sleat. It was first lit in 1857. Ornsay light was automated in 1962 and in 1966 Gavin Maxwell Enterprises Ltd, of Ring of Bright Water fame, bought the cottages at Ornsay and those at Kyleakin.
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View Larger Map Street view of the Clachan Bridge, Scotland. The Clachan Bridge is a simple, single arched, hump backed masonry bridge spanning the Clachan Sound, southwest of Oban in Argyll, Scotland. The bridge links the west coast of the Scottish mainland with the island of Seil. Originally designed by Thomas Telford, and built between 1792 and 1793 by engineer Robert Mylne, the bridge became known as " The Bridge over the Atlantic ". It was designed with a high arch, of roughly 22 metres span and about 12 metres above the bed of the channel, to allow the passage of vessels of up to 40 tonnes at high tide.
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View Larger Map Street view of the Black Watch Monument, Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland. At Aberfeldy, near the bridge that General George Wade built, stands the Black Watch memorial, a stone cairn topped by the imposing figure of a Highland volunteer in Scotland's first Highland regiment. The Black Watch was formed at Aberfeldy in Perthshire in the early eighteenth century as an independent security force, or 'watch', to guard the approaches to the lawless areas of the Scottish Highlands. Instantly recognisable due to the famous red hackle cap badge and the traditional dark blue and green government tartan kilt from which it got its name.
Tour Scotland photograph of Temple Wood Stone Circle Kilmartin Glen, Scotland. Temple Wood, or Half Moon Wood, is an ancient site located in Kilmartin Glen, Scotland. The site includes two circles, north and south. The southern circle contains a ring of 13 standing stones about 12 meters in diameter. In the past it may have had 22 stones. In the center is a burial cist surrounded by a circle of stones about 3 meters in diameter. Other later burials are associated with the circle. According to the Historic Scotland information marker at the site, the southern circle's first incarnation may have been constructed around 3000 BC. The northern circle is smaller and consists rounded river stones, which also fill the southern circle. In its center is a single stone; another stone is found on the edge of the circle. This circle may have originated as a timber circle.
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The red telephone box at Pennan, is the most called telephone box in Scotland. These calls are created by tourists phoning a relative and asking them to ring back. The Pennan phone box is now a listed building and it is painted with red paint that is used on oil rigs to protect metal work from the harsh North Sea and winds. Pennan and its phone box were used in the 1983 film Local Hero.
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Street view of the Great Stone Aberlemno, Scotland.
Photograph of the Great Stone Aberlemno, Scotland. The western road-side Pictish stone is a Class II stone showing a Celtic Cross on one side, and a hunting scene on the reverse. This stone is known as Aberlemno III.
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Isle of Skye. 40 Coast and Country Walks. The Isle of Skye occupies an almost mythical place in the minds of many Scots. Romantic castles, magnificent sea-scapes, the alpine peaks of the Cuillin Ridge, marching pipe bands, scattered white crofters' cottages and a bloody history; the island has all these and more. This book features 40 moderate walks that take in much of this celebrated landscape, but reveal hidden gems too. In spite of its popularity Skye is still rich in undiscovered treasures, from coastal caves and arches, ruined villages cruelly cleared of their inhabitants, to fossilised dinosaur footprints and a rich array of wildlife. Written by Skye residents Paul and Helen Webster, these walks will reveal both the wild and gentler sides of this dramatic landscape. Isle of Skye: 40 Coast and Country Walks (Pocket Mountains).
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Street view of Talisker Distillery, Carbost, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. The only distillery on the Isle of Skye, set on the shores of Loch Harport with dramatic views of the Cuillins.
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Tour Scotland photograph of Isle of Skye Golf Course, Sconser, Isle of Skye, Scotland. The Isle of Skye Golf Club is a 9 hole seaside course with spectacular views of of the Red Cuillins, Ben Tianavaig and the Isle of Raasay. The club was established in 1964.
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