Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes and drums music, on ancestry visit to the parish church and graveyard in Dollar, Clackmannanshire. Dollar Cemetery contains one Commonwealth war grave from the First World War and 3 from the Second World War. 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. Autumn, also known as fall in North American English.
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