Tour Scotland travel video of a Winter snow road trip drive East on the A913 road, with Scottish bagpipes and drums music, from Abernethy in Perthshire, to where the Lindores Abbey Whisky Distillery is located on Abbey Road on visit to Newburgh in North Fife. The distillery is closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The earliest record of scotch whisky cited by the exchequer roll for 1494 is a commission from King James IV to Friar John Cor of Lindores Abbey to make about eight bols of malt or 580 kg of aquavitae. The abbey is now the location of Lindores Abbey distillery. Newburgh was on the route from important parts of central Scotland, including Perth and Scone, to St Andrews, a key religious centre in Scottish history. In 1266 Newburgh was granted burgh status by King Alexander III of Scotland, as a burgh belonging to the Abbot of Lindores. In 1600, Newburgh was given to Patrick Leslie, son of the Earl of Rothes, a powerful Scottish family, and in 1631, Newburgh was made a Royal Burgh by King Charles I. At its peak, there were several hundred handlooms in Newburgh, before power looms brought an end to handloom weaving. Weaving memories survive through such a name as Shuttlefield, a street off the western end of the High Street. The linen cloth produced in Newburgh was of very good quality and would have been shipped for trade by merchants using the River Tay. Robert Hunter, the lead editor of the Encyclopædic Dictionary, which he produced in seven volumes between 1879 and 1888. In addition, he was an ordained minister and missionary for the Free Church of Scotland, and a notable geologist, becoming a Fellow of the Geological Society, was born in Newburgh, Fife in 1823 to John Mackenzie Hunter of Portpatrick, Wigtownshire, an excise officer and Agnes Strickland of Ulverston, Lancashire, England. He was educated at the Grammar School, Aberdeen where he came first in the open exam for university bursaries and thus went to Marischal College at the University of Aberdeen. He studied Latin, Greek, Mathematics and Natural Science, frequently coming first in the exams.
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. Fresh snow is expected to hit Scotland with the weather forecast anticipating as much as 15cm to fall over a 24 hour period. Stirling, the Highlands, Dumfries and Galloway, Ayrshire and Glasgow are among the place to potentially see the worst of the conditions.
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