Rainy Sunday Road Trip Drive To Burrelton Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of a rainy Sunday road trip from Perth, with Scottish music, through Scone and Balbeggie on ancestry visit to Burrelton and Woodside, Perthshire. Burrelton is small Scottish village is located about 12 miles from Perth and 15 miles from Dundee. It is joined onto another smaller village, Woodside. At the end of the 18th Century, the land on which Balbeggie village was to take shape was owned by Andrew Murray of Murrayshall. It was an insignificant place on the Scone to Abernyte road and probably comprised only a few crofts and cottages. At the end of the 18th Century a new turnpike road from Perth was constructed by private subscription. Robert Inches, a Shoemaker, settled in the village when he and his family first arrived in Balbeggie from Bankfoot between 1812 and 1819. John Inches was a weaver who was born in Lethendy parish in 1789. He was an established resident of Balbeggie by 1828.

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