Daffodils South Inch Park Perth Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K Spring travel video of daffodils by South Inch Park on visit to Perth, Perthshire. ( While keeping a Social Distance you can still take a walk in a local park during the Coronavirus Pandemic keeping yourself out of close contact with other people ) South Inch is a low lying area of parkland which forms part of the flood plain of the River Tay immediately to the south of the centre of the Fair City of Perth, the South Inch is divided by the Edinburgh Road. The North and South Inches was granted to the Royal Burgh of Perth in 1374 by King Robert II, born 1316, died 1390. Lying outside the boundary of the medieval burgh, where trade and industry were strictly limited, the South Inch became a busy place, used as a bleachfield, for public cattle grazing, and horse racing was first recorded here in 1613. Cattle markets were moved here in 1785. Oliver Cromwell's army built a Citadel in the northeast corner of the South Inch after they captured Perth in 1651. In 1661, after the restoration of King Charles II, the Citadel was given to the city and parts were demolished. During the Risings of 1715 and 1745 the citadel was incorporated into the Jacobite defences of the town, and thereafter a cavalry barracks was built on the site.

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