Tour Scotland Photograph Stained Glass Window Culross Abbey


Tour Scotland photograph of a stained glass window in the Abbey Church in Culross, Fife, Scotland. The abbey was founded in 1217 by Malcolm I, Mormaer or Earl of Fife, and was first colonised by monks from Kinloss Abbey. Culross may have been chosen to establish an abbey because this was the birthplace of Saint Mungo.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Thomas Cochrane Memorial Culross


Tour Scotland photograph of the Thomas Cochrane Memorial in Culross, Fife, Scotland. Thomas Cochrane was born December 14, 1775 at Annsfield, Scotland. The son of Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald and Anna Gilchrist, he spent the majority of his early years at the family's estate in Culross. Under the practice of the day his uncle, Alexander Cochrane, an officer in the Royal Navy, had his name entered on the books of naval vessels at age five. Though technically illegal, this practice reduced the amount of time Cochrane would need to serve before becoming an officer if he elected to pursue a naval career. In 1793, with the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars, Cochrane joined the Royal Navy. Initially assigned to his uncle's ship HMS Hind, he soon followed the elder Cochrane to HMS Thetis. Learning his trade on the North American station, he was appointed an acting lieutenant in 1795, before passing his lieutenant's exams the following year. Following several assignments in America, he was made eighth lieutenant on Lord Keith's flagship HMS Barfleur in 1798. Serving in the Mediterranean.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Town House Culross


Tour Scotland photograph of the Town House in Culross, Fife, Scotland. The Town House was built in 1626 and was the administrative centre of Culross with a tollbooth and witches' prison. The front of the building was altered, and the forestair and clock and bell tower were added in 1783.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Mercat Cross Culross


Tour Scotland photograph of the Mercat Cross in Culross, Fife, Scotland. The Mercat Cross has a unicorn on top. The cross was the symbol of a burgh's right to trade and was located in the market place of Culross. A mercat cross is a market cross found in Scottish cities and towns where trade and commerce was a part of economic life. It was originally a place where merchants would gather, and later became the focal point of many town events such as executions, announcements and proclamations.



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Tour Scotland Photograph The Study Culross


Tour Scotland photograph of the 16th century building called The Study in Culross, Fife, Scotland. The study at the top of the stair tower, from which the house takes its name, was possibly also a look out. It is also said to have been used by Bishop Leighton of Dunblane in the late 17th century who reputedly stayed in Mid Causeway.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Cobblestoned Street Culross


Tour Scotland photograph of a cobblestoned Street in Culross, Fife, Scotland. In 1490 Culross was made a Burgh of Barony by King James IV. In 1575 the local abbey sold the lease of its disused colliery to George Bruce, who exploited the coal and developed the salt panning industry to create a large and profitable business. He was influential in getting James VI to grant Culross the royal burgh status in the late 16th century, so that he could trade abroad and enjoyed 50 years of prosperous trading in coal and salt. Iron baking girdles were a famous Culross product and Culross had the monopoly on their manufacture from the late 16th century until 1727. Much rebuilt in the 17th century, Culross retains many typical burgh features including the church, tolbooth and mercat cross.



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Tour Scotland Photographs Oban


Tour Scotland photograph of Oban, Scotland. In the eighteenth century, the land where Oban now stands supported very few households, sustaining only minor shipbuilding and quarrying. The modern town of Oban grew up around the distillery that was founded there in 1794. By the late nineteenth century, Oban was a busy port which shipped wool, whisky, slate and kelp to Liverpool and Glasgow. The arrival of the railways brought new prosperity to Oban, revitalising local industry and giving birth to local tourism. It was at this time that McCaig's Tower, a folly and prominent local landmark, was constructed.


Tour Scotland photograph of McCaig's Tower, Oban, Scotland.



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Street View St Fillans Parish Church


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Street view of St Fillans Parish Church, Killin, Scotland. St Fillans Parish Church, in Killin on Loch Tay, is known locally as the Grouse Chapel, it was built in 1876 from corrugated iron by the 7th Marquis of Breadalbane for members of his shooting parties. It is one of the few Victorian "tin tabernacles" still in active use, as both a Scottish Episcopal Church and also by the local Roman Catholic Congregation.

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April 2nd Photograph Perth Bridge Scotland


April 2nd photograph of Perth Bridge, Perth, Scotland.


April 2nd photograph of Perth Bridge, Perth, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Soutra Aisle


Tour Scotland photograph of Soutra Aisle, Scotland. Located just within the Scottish Borders, not far from Fala, is the remains of the House of the Holy Trinity, a church that was part of a complex comprising a hospital and a friary. The aisle has survived by having been the burial place of the Pringles of Soutra, now of Torwoodlee, with a lintel above the entrance dating from 1688.



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Photograph Loch Ness Dores Scotland


Photograph of Loch Ness from Dores, South of Inverness, Scotland.

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Street view of Dores Inn, South of Inverness, Scotland. Located eight miles south of Inverness, the village of Dores boasts the very popular Dores Inn. Housed in a small Scottish cottage that still retains many of its original features, the bar and restaurant are small but cosy with a log fire in winter, and a few tables are scattered outside overlooking Loch Ness.

Photograph Gordon Brown Oban Scotland


Photograph of Gordon Brown at the Scottish Labour party conference Corran Halls, Oban, Scotland. Photographic Print of Scottish Labour party conference from Press Association Images.

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Photograph Prince Charles Caithness Scotland


Photograph of The Prince of Wales as he talked to fishermen at the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, Scrabster, Caithness, Scotland. Photographic Print of Prince Charles visits Scotland from Press Association Images.

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Photograph Queen Glasgow Scotland


Photograph of The Queen having a cup of tea in the Castlemilk area of Glasgow, Scotland. Photographic Print of The Queen at Castlemilk area of Glasgow. from Press Association Images.

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Photograph Orkney Whisky Poster Scotland


Photograph of an old Orkney Whisky Poster from Scotland.

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Photograph Ronnie Corbett Scotland


Photograph of Ronnie Corbett at a Highland Games in Scotland. Photographic Print of Ronnie Corbett Scottish comedian from MirrorPrintStore.

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The autobiography of one of Britain's best-loved entertainers. Ronnie Corbett, the son of an Edinburgh baker, tells of his childhood and how he became convinced he had to seek his fortune as an actor, how he pursued that goal and found fame on television as one of "The Two Ronnies", and how he met a cast of extraordinary people along the way. He reveals the technique he used for guessing the height of a girl and how he first met David Frost, John Cleese and Michael Palin, and how he once played Othello to Danny La Rue's Desdemona. High Hopes.

Tour Scotland Photograph Beorgs of Housetter Standing Stones Shetland Islands


Tour Scotland photograph of Beorgs of Housetter Standing Stones, Northmavine, Shetland Islands, Scotland. Two standing stones, with the remains of a cairn which occupied a somewhat unusual site at the base of a high and very rugged scree, some eighty yards from the west side of the public road.



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Tour Scotland Photographs Ancient Farmhouse Papa Westray Orkney Islands


Tour Scotland photograph of a neolithic farmhouse at Knap of Howar, on Papa Westray, one of the Orkney Islands, Scotland. This is the oldest preserved house in northern Europe, dating from around 3500 BC. The homestead, which consists of two roughly rectangular stone rooms side by side, linked by an internal door, and with doors to the outside at the west end, is partly subterranean, and virtually complete to roof height.


Photograph of a neolithic farmhouse on Papa Westray, Orkney Islands, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Butt of Lewis Lighthouse


Tour Scotland photograph of Butt of Lewis Lighthouse, Isle of Lewis, Scotland. This is the northernmost point of the Isle of Lewis. It is the location for an unmanned lighthouse built in the 1860s and designed by David Stevenson. The Butt of Lewis was originally manned by three Keepers who lived at the Station with their families. The Station's claim to fame is that it was the windiest spot in the United Kingdom.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Duncansby Head


Tour Scotland photograph of sea stacks at Duncansby Head, Scotland. This is the most north-easterly part of the Scottish mainland, including even the famous John o' Groats. The headland juts into the North Sea, with the Pentland Firth to its north and west and the Moray Firth to its south. The point is marked by Duncansby Head Lighthouse. A narrow road leads from John o' Groats to Duncansby Head, which makes Duncansby Head the furthest point by road from Land's End in western Cornwall, England.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Findochty


Tour Scotland photograph of Findochty, Moray Firth, Scotland. In 1716 the Ord family brought 13 men and 4 boys from Fraserburgh under contract to fish from Findochty, and for a time the harbour was busy with landings of herring and white fish. Findochty expanded as a fishing port through the 1700s and 1800s, and by 1850 was home to 140 fishing boats. But the expansion in the late 1800s of nearby Buckie provided a better harbour, and some of the fishing fleet had left Findochty by 1890. Findochty harbour is now used mostly by pleasure craft. Known locally as Finechty, with its painted cottages, a scenic harbour, Findochty is a jewel of the north east of Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Photograph River Etive


Tour Scotland photograph of the River Etive flowing through Glen Etive, Scotland. The River Etive rises on the peaks surrounding Rannoch Moor, with several tributary streams coming together at the Kings House Hotel, at the head of Glencoe. From the Kings House, the Etive flows for about 18 km, reaching the sea loch, Loch Etive.



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Street View Clach na Carraig Scotland


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Street view of Clach na Carraig standing stone, near Oban, Scotland. Spelt variously Clach na Carra, Clach Dhiarmaid, Carragh Dhiarmaid, Diarmaid's Stone or Pillar, this is a massive granite monolith. It is said to mark the spot where Diarmaid, the Fingalian hero, died and was buried.

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Street View Ben Nevis Distillery Scotland


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Street view of Ben Nevis Distillery, Fort William, Scotland. Ben Nevis Distillery established in 1825, is one of the oldest licensed distilleries in Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Gatehouse Ardverikie


Tour Scotland photograph of the Gatehouse to Ardverikie, Scotland. The Gatehouse to Ardverikie House appears many times in Monarch of the Glen. It is next to the A86 road and, if you are travelling from Laggan, it can be seen on the left of the road a mile or so before you reach Loch Laggan.



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Street View Dun Troddan Scotland


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Street view of Dun Troddan Broch, Glenelg, Scotland. A broch tower, standing more than 10 metres high, with well preserved structural features. Set in beautiful surroundings. A Broch is an Iron Age drystone hollow walled structure of a type found only in Scotland. Brochs include some of the most sophisticated examples of drystone architecture ever created

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Tour Scotland Photographs Fort George


Tour Scotland photograph of Fort George near Inverness, Scotland. Fort George, Ardersier, Highlands, Scotland, is a large 18th century fortress near Inverness with perhaps the mightiest artillery fortifications in Europe. It was built to pacify the Scottish Highlands in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745.


Photograph of Fort George, near Inverness, Scotland.


Photograph of cannon guarding the Moray Firth, Fort George, near Inverness, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Photographs Grey Cairns of Camster


Tour Scotland photograph of the Grey Cairns of Camster, Caithness, Scotland. Two chambered burial cairns of Neolithic date. One is long, with two chambers and projecting ‘ horns ’ and the other is round, and contains a single chamber.


Photograph of the Grey Cairns of Camster, Caithness, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Photographs Stanydale Temple Shetland Islands


Tour Scotland photograph of Stanydale Neolithic Temple, Stanydale, West Mainland, Shetland Islands, Scotland. Tanydale is the best known although not the biggest ancient settlement sites in West Mainland Shetland. The main feature is the so called Stanydale Temple an oval house twice as big as the oval houses lying next to it. A fourth and better preserved oval house is right on the track leading to the site. Pottery found on the site indicates that the houses were in use for a very long time from Late Neolithic right through the Bronze Age. The main building shows two post-holes in its centre which might have supported some kind of timber roof, a very unusual construction within a nearly wood less environment like the Shetland islands of those days. The size of the building, the entrance situation similar to the facades of the so called heel-shaped cairns and the sophisticated construction of the roofing led the excavator to suggest that this building was used as a "temple" but it might have served as some kind of a chieftains house or an assembly hall as well.


Photograph of Stanydale Temple, Shetland Islands, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Sheep Galloway


Tour Scotland photograph of sheep in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Dumfries and Galloway is located in the western Southern Uplands. It comprises the historic counties of Dumfriesshire, Stewartry of Kirkcudbright and Wigtownshire, the latter two of which are known as Galloway. To the north, Dumfries and Galloway borders East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire; in the east the Borders; and to the south the county of Cumbria in England and the Solway Firth. To the west lies the Irish Sea.



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Tour Scotland Photographs Dundrennan Abbey Scotland


Tour Scotland photograph of Dundrennan Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish Abbey located near to Kirkcudbright, was a Cistercian monastery in the Romanesque architectural style, established in 1142 by Fergus of Galloway, King David I of Scotland (1124-53), and monks from Rievaulx Abbey. Though extensively ruined, the transepts are the main surviving parts, Dundrennan is noted for the purity and restraint of its architecture, reflecting the austere Cistercian ideal. It is also built from very hard weathering grey sandstone, so the original architectural forms and mouldings are well preserved. Mary, Queen of Scots, after the Battle of Langside, spent her final night in Scotland here, in 1568. From neighbouring Port Mary, she crossed the Solway Firth to Workington, and shortly after was imprisoned by the English. In 1587, following the Scottish Reformation, the land passed to the Crown. The site eventually fell into ruin.





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Tour Scotland Photographs MacLellan's Castle


Tour Scotland photograph of MacLellan's Castle, Kirkcudbright, Scotland. This Scottish The L-plan castle was the residence of the MacLellan family from whom it derived its name. The family sold the castle in 1752, and from 1782 to 1912 it was held by the Earls of Selkirk.


Photograph of MacLellan's Castle, Kirkcudbright, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Photographs Mull of Galloway Lighthouse


Tour Scotland photograph of the Mull of Galloway Lighthouse, Galloway, Scotland. Mull of Galloway Lighthouse, with its 26 metre high tower, was built from a design by Robert Stevenson, between 1828 and 1830. Mull means rounded hill or mountain.


Photograph of the Mull of Galloway Lighthouse, Galloway, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Photographs Dunskey Castle


Tour Scotland photograph of the 16th century clifftop Dunskey Castle, overlooking the Irish Sea, near Portpatrick, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The present Dunskey Castle was built by the Adairs of Kinhilt, who also possessed the Castle of St. John in nearby Stranraer, around 1510. In 1620, it was acquired by Hugh Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery, who extended the building. In 1648 it passed to the Blair family, but was ruined by 1684.






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Tour Scotland Photograph Cairn Holy Chambered Cairns


Tour Scotland photograph of Cairn Holy Chambered Cairns, Galloway, Scotland. Two remarkably complete Neolithic burial cairns, of a type characteristic of Galloway. The cairns are situated on a hill offering fine views over Wigtown Bay. The tomb shown measures 50 by 15 metres and has a monumental curving façade, that formed the backdrop to a forecourt in front of the tomb. Excavation showed that several fires had been lit in the forecourt. The tomb itself has two chambers. The outer chamber, which was entered through the façade, contained a fragment of a jadeite ceremonial axe, together with sherds of Neolithic pottery and a leaf-shaped arrowhead. Late grave goods comprised Peterborough ware and Beaker ware pottery sherds and a flint knife. The inner chamber was built as a closed box, and was inaccessible from the outer one. It was probably originally roofed by a great stone slab resting on the two taller end slabs. The inner chamber contained a secondary cist, with food vessel sherds and a cup and ring carved stone.



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