Tour Scotland Winter snow travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish music, East on the B939 road on visit to Ceres, Fife. The village is dominated by the Parish Church. It has what is possibly the shortest High Street in Scotland, just a few houses on each side. The name Ceres signifies " place to the west " from the Scottish Gaelic Siar meaning " west ", probably in relation to St Andrews. The church was built in 1806 to a design by Alexander Leslie, on the site of a much earlier building. It is on rising ground in the centre of Ceres with a graveyard to the East. The tower and octagonal spire were added in the 1850s, in the middle of the south elevation. Robert Fleming Gourlay was born March 22, 1778 in Craigrothie in the Parish of Ceres. He received a Master of Arts degree from the University of St. Andrews and studied agriculture at the University of Edinburgh. In 1817, his wife inherited some land in the Niagara District of Upper Canada and he travelled there via New York City, expecting to return by the Fall. He returned to England and published A General Introduction to a Statistical Account of Upper Canada in 1822. In 1856, he returned to his property in Canada and ran unsuccessfully for a seat in Oxford in Canada West. He returned to Edinburgh, Scotland, and died there in 1863.
During the coronavirus pandemic I have been a volunteer driver doing some shopping etc; for elderly Scots. From Tuesday 5 January, mainland Scotland moved from Level 4 to a temporary Lockdown.
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