By Baron Delvine - Own work, Public Domain, Link This is a real hidden gem on any tours of Scotland. It is the site of a Roman Legionary Fortress and lies on the banks of the River Tay. The fortress was in existence around 83 A.D. Coins have been...
Mainland is the largest in Orkney and Kirkwall is the county town. Roughly one-third of Mainland’s 14,000 population lives in this seaport on the neck of land which divides the island into 2 unequal parts. St Magnus is one of only two in Scotland to retain...
This castle is in Aberdeenshire and a hidden gem on any tours of Scotland. It stands in a little tributary glen of the Suie Burn north of Alford. There are round towers and roofless gables with a picturesque Z plan tower house. Terpersie castle was built by William...
The castle of Kilchurn is in Argyll. It stands at the NE end of Loch Awe. The castle stands on a rock that was once an island but is now surrounded by marsh. It was a stronghold of the Campbells, and the keep was built by Sir Colin...
Once the first stopping place of the many paddle steamers cruising up Loch Lomond, Balmaha is situated on the south-east side of the loch, less accessible than the west side, which takes the road going north from Glasgow. The sailors may head for any one of...
The coast on this stretch of land between Lossiemouth and Hopeman is generally low and flat, with miles of fine sand at the seashore. Post-Ice Age glacial release created cliffs of red sandstone between sixty and a hundred feet high. The sea has worked at...
The lovely Nine Glens bite deeply into the basalts of the Antrim plateau and into the hard overlays of modern history. Cut off, until a century ago, by land barriers, these green pockets of Gaelic life have kept their own distinction and character. Their outlook was always...
In all Scottish place names, the prefix ‘inver’ signifies the mouth of a river; near here the River Tote opens out into the Sound of Raasay. You won’t see it from the road, but all up and down the East Trotternish coast sills of basalt...
The Cairngorms are not the preserve of skilled and well-equipped mountaineers; apart from the ski routes with their merciful chairlifts, they contain many paths for the adventurous walker. To reach Loch Avon, a narrow trench of water bulldozed into shape by an Ice Age glacier...
Situated above the bay from it which it takes its name, Culzean Castle (pronounced Cull-ain) was built for the Earl of Cassillis by Robert Adam, the greatest architect Scotland has produced, between 1777 and the year of his death, 1792. Culzean is a castle built...