Winter Walk In Snow To Visit Scone Palace By Perth Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of a Winter walk in snow, with Scottish music, on visit to Scone Palace by Perth, Perthshire. After the Scottish Reformation put an end to the Augustinian Abbey at Scone, the Ruthven family acquired the estate and built an imposing fortified residence around 1580. The Ruthvens could not steer clear of political conspiracy, however and the property was seized by the crown and ended up in the hands of the Murray family. The Murrays supported the Jacobite cause, and the 5th Viscount Stormont hosted The Old Pretender at Scone Palace during the 1715 rebellion. The Viscount was imprisoned for his actions, and so was his heir, the 6th Viscount, after his sisters hosted Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1745. In 1802 the 3rd Earl of Mansfield brought in William Atkinson to completely remodel his ancestral home in the fashionable Gothic Revival style. Atkinson would later design Abbotsford for Sir Walter Scott, but at Scone he designed a romanticised 19th-century version of a medieval palace, incorporating parts of the 16th century house. The village of Scone got in the way of landscaping the grounds, so the entire village was moved 2 miles away. The surname Mansfield was first found in Nottinghamshire, England, at Mansfield, a market town that dates back to the Domesday Book of 1086 where it was listed as Mamesfelde. The various spellings include Mansfield, Manfield, Mansfeild and others. William Mansfield, aged 28, was a British convict who was convicted in Somerset, England for life for highway robbery, transported aboard the ship Calcutta in February 1803, arriving in New South Wales, Australia, he died in 1852; Richard Mansfield was a baker, who arrived in New South Wales, Australia sometime between 1825 and 1832; Thomas Mansfield landed in Wellington, New Zealand in 1844; Ann Mansfield, aged 44, arrived in Auckland, New Zealand aboard the ship Maori in 1864; John Mansfield arrived in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1749; Peter Mansfield landed in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1822; Margaret Murphy Mansfield arrived in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1840; Robert Mansfield settled in Lynn Massachusetts, America, in 1630; Thomas and Jane Mansfield settled in Virginia, America, in 1634; John Mansfield settled in Boston, America, in 1634; Elizabeth Mansfield settled in Maryland, America, in 1774. The Palace is closed at present due to the coronavirus pandemic All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

View the most recent Tour Scotland photographs.