Autumn Road Trip Drive To Kinclaven Bridge And Church Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish music, to cross Kinclaven Bridge over the River Tay and ancestry visit the church and cemetery in Kinclaven, Perthshire. The single track, six arched Scottish bridge with traffic lights at both ends is situated on a bend in the River Tay. A concrete bridge built in 1905 carrying the Murthly road over the River Tay. It comprises six tudor arches faced with pink sandstone rubble, the piers of which have triangular cutwaters. The parish church was rebuilt in 1848. The graveyard contains the war memorial lychgate of 1919 by Reginald Fairlie, and some table tombs of the 17th century and later. Built into the churchyard wall is the monument to Alexander Campbell Bishop of Brechin 1608. There was an ancient castle in old Kinclaven which is said to have been built by Malcolm Canmore, and to have been for many centuries an occasional residence of the kings of Scotland, from which several of their charters are dated. During the wars that arose, from the contested succession to the throne, between Bruce and Baliol, the castle was occupied by an English garrison, which, being at an unguarded moment surprised by Sir William Wallace, was taken and dismantled so far as to render it no longer tenable as a place of strength.

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