Summer Road Trip Drive To Visit Parish Church And Cemetery In Dollar Clackmannanshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Summer travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish music, to visit the parish church and cemetery in Dollar, Clackmannanshire. Scottish Gaelic: Dolair, was once a place of residence of Mary, Queen of Scots. Dollar is twinned with the French town of La Ville aux Dames, which lies just outside Tours in the Loire Valley. The poet Robert Burns visited Craufurd Tait in Dollar in 1787, staying on the Harviestoun estate. There he was inspired to write the song The Banks of Devon. The Parish Church was designed by Tite of London, England, and built 1842 to replace an earlier church. Dollar is twinned with the French town of La Ville-aux-Dames, which lies just outside Tours in the Loire Valley.

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