Tulliallan was an estate and is worth a visit on any tours of Scotland. It is close to Kincardine. There are the ruins of a castle that was the seat of the Blackadder family. It is an early fourteenth century hall-house. There is a splendid under-croft, rib-vaulted ceiling spanning...
This is near the Hill of Tarvit in Scotland. It is an interesting stop on any tours of Scotland. Definitely a bit of a hidden gem. Scotstarvit Tower is a high and notable landmark. It is Ashlar faced, embattled, and turreted. It rises to five storeys complete with garret and...
This is a picturesque, ancient, seaport. It’s a nice stop on any tours of Scotland. The town grew up around its 12th century Priory and the harbour. Parts of the Priory dating from the 16th century, and the gatehouse, have been restored by the National Trust. Then you have...
This is one of Scotland’s oldest inhabited castles, and as such, worth seeing on any tours of Scotland. The oldest part of the castle is thought to date from 1360 and the home of the Seward family. The Seward’s fought against MacBeth in 1054. In 1613 it passed...
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="512"] Ruins of Newark Castle, Fife[/caption] This is a long-established fishing port in Fife, Scotland. The attraction on any tours of Scotland is the church. The church has existed since 1362, the reign of King David the second, of Scotland. The church was restored in the...
This is a most beautiful village in Fife, and well worth seeing on any tours of Scotland. It is the most complete 17th/18th century village in Scotland. It has so much to see including stunning little houses along cobbled streets. These are 17th century in origin. The streets have appeared many...
This is a popular town famous for its Silver Sands. There are boating and sailing facilities. There is also a decent golf course. But what makes it worth a visit on any tours of Scotland is Saint Fillan’s Church. This is a real gem of Scottish Ecclesiastical architecture and...
The oddly shaped ‘inch’ is surely the strangest of the Firth of Forth islands. Its abbey (the Abbey of the Inch of Saint Columba) was out of gratitude to a hermit who had offered him shelter during a stormy passage on the Forth. It consists...
The coast road north from Edinburgh to Saint Andrews and Tayside is for part of its route a series of links between small medieval fishing villages of similar appearance: St Monance, Pittenweem, Anstruther and, the most north-easterly, Crail. James VI called these royal burghs the...
In Walter Scott’s novel Rob Roy, Andrew Fairservice, the loquacious gardener, refers to the kingdom of Fife as ‘just like a great combined city – Sae mony royal boroughs yoken on end to end… Kirkcaldy, the sell o’t, is langer than ony town in England.’...