Autumn Road Trip Drive With Music On History Visit To Blairingone Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of an Autumn road trip drive, with Scottish music, East on the A977 road on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Blairingone village in Perthshire. This Scottish village was once a base for the serious manufacture of weapons of war, the twin forges of the village Blacksmiths being maintained by the easily obtained surface coal in the area. Materials like Limestone, Alum, Iron-ore, Whinstone and Sulphur as well as coal were mined here on a regular basis. History records that the Fossoway area and over into Fife contained the most ancient coal mining operations in Scotland. During the 1700s a wagon way complex included a track from Blairingone for carrying coal which also connected the North Fife coal fields and the lime burners at Limekilns on the Forth Estuary. Blairingone in Gaelic is ; Blàr-na-gobhainn, and the literal translation is Smithfield or Field of the Smith. The word Gobhainn is derived from Macgowan which is another name for Blacksmith. Other local derivations of the Gaelic name are ; Field of Arrows or Field of Spears. When driving in Scotland, slow down and enjoy the trip. Autumn leaf color or colour is a phenomenon that affects the normally green leaves of many deciduous trees and shrubs by which they take on, during a few weeks in the Autumn season, various shades of red, yellow, purple, black, orange, pink, magenta, blue and brown. The phenomenon is commonly called autumn colours or autumn foliage in British English and fall colors, fall foliage or simply foliage in American English All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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