Spring Road Trip Drive From Bankfoot To Visit Birnam And Dunkeld Highland Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring travel video of a May road trip drive, with Scottish music, from Bankfoot on the B867 road and then North of the A9 road to visit Birnam and then and over Telford Bridge to Dunkeld in Highland Perthshire. John Everett Millais, who painted many local landscapes, and Beatrix Potter, with her family, often visited the village of Birnam. The Birnam Highland Games is where the World Haggis Eating Championships are held. There is access by rail at Dunkeld and Birnam railway station, on the London, England to Inverness in the Highlands route. The name Dunkeld comes from from Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Chailleann, meaning " fort of the Caledonians". Its recorded history dates back to the foundation here of a settlement by Culdee Monks in about 730AD. This was rebuilt by Kenneth MacAlpin in 848 and two years later Dunkeld became the religious centre of Scotland when St Columba's relics were moved here from Iona for safe keeping from increasing Viking raids. Most of the original town was destroyed during the Battle of Dunkeld when, in August 1689, the 26th Foot Cameronian Regiment successfully fought the Jacobites shortly after the latter's victory at the Battle of Killiecrankie. Holes made by musket ball strikes during the battle can still be seen in some buildings. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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