Tour Scotland early Winter travel video of a road trip drive North on the A9 road, with Scottish accordion music, on ancestry visit to the parish church and graveyard in Logierait, Highland Perthshire. This Scottish village was the birthplace of the sociologist Adam Ferguson born 1723, died 1816, and the Canadian politicians John McIntosh, born 1796, died 1853 and Alexander Mackenzie, born 1822, died 1892, Canada's second Prime Minister. The church building you see today was constructed between 1804 and 1806, apparently on the site of, and perhaps incorporating parts of, an earlier church, itself probably the latest in a series to have stood on the spot. Most sources agree that the first church was established on this site as early as 650, by St Cedd, while travelling from Island of Iona to Lindisfarne.. The A9 is a major road running from central Scotland to Scrabster Harbour, Thurso in the far north, via Stirling, Bridge of Allan, Perth and Inverness. At 273 miles, it is the longest road in Scotland and the fifth longest A road in the United Kingdom. Historically it was the main road between Edinburgh and John o' Groats, and has been called the spine of Scotland. Drive with great care and patience on this road as it regularly appears in lists of Scotland's most dangerous roads. Perthshire and Perth and Kinross is under tier three coronavirus restrictions, which limits travel into and out of the area and imposes strict rules on hospitality.
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