Tour Scotland Travel Video Piper Gordon Barclay Solo Piping Competition Highland Gathering Blair Atholl Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Piper Gordon Barclay 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 Barclay surname is locational, from Berkeley a parish and market town in Gloucestershire or Berkeley in Somerset, England, both so called from the Old English pre 7th Century " be(o)rc " meaning " birch " plus " leah " "wood" or " clearing " hence " birch wood ". The name is particularly prominent in Scotland which suggests that it was brought in by a Berkeley from Gloucestershire in the 12th Century.

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