Autumn Road Trip Drive With Bagpipes Music On History Visit To Burrelton Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K Autumn travel video a road trip, with Scottish bagpipes music, East on the A94 route on ancestry genealogy, family history visit to the outskirts of Burrelton, Perthshire, Britain, United Kingdom. Burrelton is small Scottish village is located about 12 miles from Perth and 15 miles from Dundee. It is joined onto another smaller village, Woodside. The village was created to rehouse local crofters after small crofts in the area were converted into larger agricultural farms. The High Street of Burrelton was laid out as a planned settlement in 1812 by Peter Drummond Burrell. He offered feus, land grants and tenures, at reduced rates, which caused rapid uptake, with most buildings erected by 1820. At the end of the 18th Century a new turnpike road from Perth was constructed by private subscription. James Lamond was born on 29 November 1928 in Burrelton. His father worked for the London and North Eastern Railway. He was educated at schools in Burrelton and Coupar Angus, before becoming an apprentice draughtsman at the Hall and Company shipyard in Aberdeen in 1942, aged 14. He could not afford the fees to study naval architecture in Newcastle, and worked as a draughtsman for the North east Scotland Regional Hospital Board. After he failed to be selected for the safe Labour seat of Aberdeen North, losing out to Robert Hughes, he found favour instead in Oldham East in England, where he was elected as Member of Parliament in June 1970. After constituency boundaries were redrawn for the 1983 election, he moved to the new seat of Oldham Central and Royton, selected ahead of Joel Barnett. With his wife June Wellburn in 1954, Lamond had three daughters, all of whom survived him. He suffered from pneumonia in later life. He died on 20 November 2007. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. When driving on Scottish roads in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip. Meteorological Autumn or Fall is different from standard and astronomical Autumn and begins September 1 and ends November 30 All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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Scotsman Walking Wearing Kilt In Rerrick Parish Churchyard On History Visit To Galloway Scotland

Tour Scotland short 4K Autumn travel video of a Scotsman wearing a kilt and Sporran and walking by trees in Rerrick Parish Churchyard on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Dumfries and Galloway, Britain, United Kingdom. The site located near Dundrennan in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright has deeply rooted religious origins that likely date back to the 9th or 12th century. Historically, the church was dedicated to Saint Glastian or Saint Glassen, a Scottish saint who died in 830 AD. A holy spring known as St Glassen's Well sits nearby, reinforcing the ancient devotional ties of the area. The church and the broader parish were officially documented by 1351. Before the Protestant Reformation, the church belonged to the nearby Dundrennan Abbey, a Cistercian monastery founded in 1142 by Fergus, Lord of Galloway. Following the Reformation, congregational worship temporarily moved into the nave of the ruined abbey. According to local lore, stone was freely exchanged between the sites; masonry from the decaying abbey was likely used to build and expand the Rerrick kirk. Later, when the old kirk itself was dismantled, its stone was reclaimed to build the new parish churches in the local villages of Dundrennan and Auchencair. While the church building was abandoned in the 19th century as newer village kirks took its place, the rubble walled churchyard remained actively used as the primary burial ground for the parish. The graveyard ground is scattered with a rich collection of 18th century table stones and headstones, alongside a larger number of 19th century monuments. These graves map out the generational history of local agricultural families, coastal tradesmen, and the tight knit community of Galloway. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. Meteorological Autumn or Fall is different from standard and astronomical Autumn and begins September 1 and ends November 30 All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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Scotsman Walking Wearing Kilt By Rock Arch On History Visit To Rhins of Galloway Scotland

Tour Scotland short 4K Autumn travel video of a Scotsman wearing a kilt and Sporran and walking by a massive, dramatic natural arch on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to the coast of Rhinns of Galloway, Britain, United Kingdom. Located roughly three miles north of the village of Port Logan at the Mull of Logan it juts straight out of a high cliff face and plunges down into the Irish Sea. The arch was created over thousands of years by coastal erosion. The powerful, abrasive action of the sea and shifting stones ground away at the softer bands of rock underneath, leaving behind a resilient, bridge-like span of harder rock strata aloft. In the past, the remote communities of the Rhins of Galloway held deep superstitions to explain unusual or seemingly impossible topography. Because the cliff arch looked so structural and unnatural, locals believed it could only have been built by supernatural forces, specifically, the Devil. Local lore even claims that if you view the underside of the arch from certain specific angles, you can see the grim silhouette of the Devil's face etched into the stone. Across Scotland and Western Europe, the term Devil’s Bridge was historically applied by default to any natural formation or ancient engineering marvel that seemed to defy human capability. Because these rock formations looked like deliberately engineered bridges spanning wild water, they naturally inherited the devilish moniker. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. Meteorological Autumn or Fall is different from standard and astronomical Autumn and begins September 1 and ends November 30 All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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Scotsman Walking Wearing Kilt By Lochar Tower On History Visit To Dumfries and Galloway Scotland

Tour Scotland short 4K Autumn travel video of a Scotsman wearing a kilt and Sporran and walking by trees and Lochar Tower on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Dumfries and Galloway, Britain, United Kingdom. Lochar Tower, also widely known as Isle Tower or Bankend Tower, is a ruined 16th century fortified tower house. The tower house was built around 1565 on a small plot of land that was historically isolated by the meanders of the Lochar Water, effectively creating a natural island defense. It was held by William Maxwell, a member of the prominent local Maxwell clan. During the Anglo Scottish border raids, the English military commander Lord Scrope attacked and burned the tower in 1570. Decades later, William's successor, Edward Maxwell of Isle, extensively reconstructed the building. The castle appears to have been left empty shortly after the death of Robert Maxwell, the 2nd Earl of Nithsdale, in 1667. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. Meteorological Autumn or Fall is different from standard and astronomical Autumn and begins September 1 and ends November 30 All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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Scotsman Walking Wearing Kilt In Glen Beg On History Visit To Aberdeenshire Scotland

Tour Scotland short 4K Autumn travel video of a Scotsman wearing a kilt and Sporran and walking by trees in Glen Beg on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Ballochbuie Forest, Aberdeenshire, Britain, United Kingdom. Glen Beg often anglicised or referred to in documents as Glen Beag, meaning small glen in Scottish Gaelic is a scenic valley tucked within the the Balmoral Estate in Aberdeenshire. It forms an integral part of the royal estate’s landscape, steeped in rich Highland heritage, clan conflicts, and royal patronage. Before becoming a royal sanctuary, the area surrounding Glen Beg and the broader Deeside region was home to early Pictish tribes. By the medieval period, it fell under the control of powerful local Scottish clans, most notably Clan Farquharson and Clan Gordon. The land encompassing Glen Beg was part of the Ballochbuie Forest, historically owned by the Farquharsons of Invercauld. Local legend holds that in the 17th century, the Farquharson laird sold the entirety of Ballochbuie Forest to the Earl of Mar in exchange for a plaid, a traditional tartan garment or kilt or to clear a minor debt. This led to the famous local saying that Ballochbuie was the bonniest plaid in Scotland because of the vast, invaluable pine forest given away for so little. The Purchase: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert first leased the neighboring Balmoral Castle estate in 1848 and purchased it outright in 1852. In 1878, to prevent the trees of Ballochbuie Forest and Glen Beg from being felled by timber merchants, Queen Victoria purchased the forest directly. Glen Beg quickly became one of Queen Victoria’s favorite remote spots for outdoor excursions, pony riding, and sketching. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. Meteorological Autumn or Fall is different from standard and astronomical Autumn and begins September 1 and ends November 30 All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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