Tour Scotland Travel Video Dreich Drive To The Steeple Clock Tower In Coupar Angus Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video Blog of a dreich Winter afternoon drive from Scone, through Balbeggie, Kinrossie, and Collace to the Tolbooth Steeple Clock Tower in Coupar Angus on ancestry visit to Perthshire, Scotland. Dreich is a Scottish word, meaning, overcast, dull and cloudy. The sixstoreyed building is a conspicuous landmark on the West side of Queen Street to the South of the town centre. It is believed to occupy the site of the prison of the regality of Coupar Angus, held originally by the Cistercian abbey and granted in 1607 to the ancestor of the Lords Balmerino. According to local tradition, the tenants of the house immediately to the north, which was partially used as a school, were responsible for feeding the prisoners. Food was passed through the ground floor window of the Steeple.

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