Tour Scotland Travel Video Piper Callum Beaumont Solo Piping Competition Highland Gathering Blair Atholl Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Piper Callum Beaumont playing the bagpipes at the Solo Piping Competition at the Highland Gathering on ancestry visit by Blair Castle in Blair Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland. The Atholl Gathering takes place on the Bank Holiday weekend at the end of May every year. This unrivalled spectacle gives locals and visitors alike the chance to participate in a unique Highland tradition that has persisted for generations.

The Beaumont surname is of Norman origin, introduced into England during the Conquest of 1066. It is a French locational name from any of the five places in Normandy so called, deriving from the Old French " beu ", fair, lovely, with " mont ", a hill. Robert de Beaumont, died 1118, was one of those who fought alongside William the Conqueror in the Norman invasion of England in 1066, and William rewarded him with large grants of land in Warwickshire. Most English bearers of the name descended from Henry de Beaumont (died 1340), who came to England from France as a soldier, serving three successive kings of England, King Edward 1, 11, and 111.

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