Spring Road Trip Drive To Madderty Strathearn Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes and drums music, on a single track road, with passing places, on visit to Madderty, Strathearn, Perthshire. Madderty is mentioned in a charter of about 1200, at which time there was a church dedicated to Saint Ethernan in the village. Daniel Stewart MacLagan was born on 3 June 1904 at Williamstone Farm in Madderty near Crieff the son of a farmer. He studied agricultural zoology at university and graduated in 1928. He then won a Ministry of Agriculture Scholarship enabling him to do further research at the Parasite Laboratory in the Imperial Institute of Entomology in London, England. He then spent a year doing further research at Harvard University in America. On his return to Scotland he received a prestigious Carnegie Research Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh and gained his first doctorate. In 1934 he began lecturing at the University of Aberdeen, and in 1936 received his second doctorate. In 1937 he moved tom Durham University. In 1944 he returned to Scotland as Head of the Zoology Department at the West of Scotland Agricultural College in Glasgow. In 1946 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He retired from academia in 1969 and returned to Madderty to run the family farm. He died on 3 February 1991 at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Edinburgh. On his death he bequeathed monies to run entomological lectures in Glasgow and money to the Macaulay Institute in Aberdeen to provide scholarships to young scientists.

A single track road or one lane road is a road that permits two way travel but is not wide enough in most places to allow vehicles to pass one another, although sometimes two compact cars can pass. This kind of road is common in rural areas across the United Kingdom and elsewhere. The term is widely used in Scotland, particularly in the Highlands and Islands.

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