Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Of Kippen

Tour Scotland travel Blog video of old photographs of Kippen, a village in West Stirlingshire. It is located between the Gargunnock Hills and the Fintry Hills and overlooks the Carse of Forth to the North. The village is 9 miles West of Stirling and 20 miles North of Glasgow. It is 4 miles South East of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, Scotland's first National Park. The growth of the village owes much to the building in the 1700s of the military road from Stirling to Dumbarton. Kippen's church was first mentioned in public records in the 1300s,. In 1454 a James Lawedre ( Lauder ) is recorded as Vicar, or parish priest. Kippen was served by a railway that ran along the lower ground north of the village from 1856 to 1934. In 1971 part of the line of the old railway was reused for a new road, the A811, which now bypasses Kippen. In 1891, Duncan Buchanan planted a vineyard in the village and one of its vines grew to be the largest in the world. The Kippen Vine covered an area of 5,000 square feet spreading across four greenhouses. It became a famous tourist attraction, until the Kippen Vinery had to close in 1964.

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