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Spring Road Trip Drive Through Abernethy Perthshire To Newburgh Fife Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of a Spring road trip drive East on the A913 road, with Scottish music, through Abernethy in Perthshire, to visit Newburgh in Fife. Newburgh was on the route from important parts of central Scotland, including Perth and Scone, to St Andrews, a key religious centre in Scottish history. In 1266 Newburgh was granted burgh status by King Alexander III of Scotland, as a burgh belonging to the Abbot of Lindores. In 1600, Newburgh was given to Patrick Leslie, son of the Earl of Rothes, a powerful Scottish family, and in 1631, Newburgh was made a Royal Burgh by King Charles I. At its peak, there were several hundred handlooms in Newburgh, before powerlooms brought an end to handloom weaving. Weaving memories survive through such a name as Shuttlefield, a street off the western end of the High Street. The linen cloth produced in Newburgh was of very good quality and would have been shipped for trade by merchants using the River Tay. Robert Hunter, the lead editor of the Encyclopædic Dictionary, which he produced in seven volumes between 1879 and 1888. In addition, he was an ordained minister and missionary for the Free Church of Scotland, and a notable geologist, becoming a Fellow of the Geological Society, was born in Newburgh, Fife in 1823 to John Mackenzie Hunter of Portpatrick, Wigtownshire, an excise officer and Agnes Strickland of Ulverston, Lancashire, England. He was educated at the Grammar School, Aberdeen where he came first in the open exam for university bursaries and thus went to Marischal College at the University of Aberdeen. He studied Latin, Greek, Mathematics and Natural Science, frequently coming first in the exams.
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