Tour Scotland Travel Video Piper Lachie Dick Solo Piping Competition Highland Gathering Blair Atholl Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Piper Lachie Dick 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.

As a surname, Dick is the 1,513th most common name in Great Britain with 6,545 bearers. Although found in every part of Britain, the form Dick is especially common in Scotland, and it was from there, in the 17th century, that the surname was taken to Northern Ireland. It is most common in West Lothian, where it is the 78th most common surname with 1,742 bearers. Other notable concentrations include Northumberland, Greece, Tyne and Wear and Berkshire and in Norfolk. Currently, in America, it ranks at 1,388 out of 88,799 surnames.

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