Spring Drive Around The Cemetery On Visit To Culross West Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring travel video of a May road trip drive, with Scottish music, around the cemetery on visit to Culross, Scottish Gaelic: Cuileann Ros, on the North Shore of the Firth of Forth, in West Fife. Culross is often used as a film and television location, including for hit US TV series, Outlander. When the Great Plague of 1645 swept north from Edinburgh, crossing the River Forth into the Kingdom of Fife, it claimed numerous victims in Culross. During the 16th century Scotland suffered from serious plague outbreaks. It affected mostly the Central Belt, but also Dumfries, Fife, St Andrews, Dundee, Aberdeen and Elgin. There is very little recorded evidence of the plague affecting the Highlands and Islands, but occasional references and the fact that folk medicine remedies against the plague existed suggest that these sparsely inhabited areas also experienced plague outbreaks. Epidemics and more contained incidents in Scotland went on at short intervals until the middle of the 17th century. The Great Plague of 1665 to 1667 did not reach Scotland. To a large extent, this was due to the preventive measures put into place by the Scottish government. The Privy Council passed a series of acts which forbid trade with countries affected by the plague, in particular England and the Netherlands. Even after the disease had dwindled there, further acts imposed a forty-day quarantine on goods imported from these places. Economically, such an interruption of trade was very disruptive, not least since England and the Netherlands were two of Scotland's main trading partners. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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