Late Autumn River Teith Doune Castle Scotland

Tour Scotland late Autumn 4K travel video of Doune Castle sited on a wooded bend where the Ardoch Burn flows into the River Teith, Scottish Gaelic Uisge Theamhich, meaning quiet and pleasant water, in the Stirling district of central Scotland. Doune is a popular filming location and has featured in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Game of Thrones and Outlander. Doune Castle was originally built in the thirteenth century, then probably damaged in the Scottish Wars of Independence, before being rebuilt in its present form in the late 14th century by Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, the son of King Robert II of Scotland, and Regent of Scotland from 1388 until his death. Duke Robert's stronghold has survived relatively unchanged and complete, and the whole castle was traditionally thought of as the result of a single period of construction at this time. The castle passed to the crown in 1425, when Albany's son was executed, and was used as a royal hunting lodge and dower house. In the later 16th century, Doune became the property of the Earls of Moray. The castle saw military action during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and Glencairn's rising in the mid 17th century, and during the Jacobite Risings of the late 17th century and 18th century. By 1800 the castle was ruined, but restoration works were carried out in the 1880s, prior to its passing into state care in the 20th century. The castle was used as a stand in for the fictional Castle Leoch in the TV adaptation of the Outlander series of novels. The River Teith is formed from the confluence of two smaller rivers: one from Loch Venachar, the Eas Gobhain which translates as " the smith's cascade ", and one from Loch Lubnaig, Garbh Uisge which translates as " the rough water ". The river flows through Callander and is joined by the Keltie Water 1 mile south of Keltie Bridge. The Teith continues to Deanston and Doune where the Ardoch Burn meets it, before its confluence with the Forth upstream of Stirling. The distance by road from Perth, Perthshire to Doune Castle is 33.8 miles. Cold weather but now snow yet in this area of the Lowlands.

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