Dunfermline Tag

    This is a quaint village near Dunfermline in Scotland. The name of the village derives from Scottish Gaelic.   The attraction on any tours of Scotland are the ruins of a 12th Century church. The church was partly restored in the 17th Century. The pulpit was dated 1674 and the...

Edinburgh owes its existence to the Castle Rock, the glacier-worn stump of a long-extinct volcano that provided a near-perfect defensive position guarding the coastal route from North East England into central Scotland. Back in the 7th century the Castle Rock was called Dun Eiden (meaning ‘Fort...