Autumn Road Trip Drive With Music To Visit Foss Highlands Of Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video, with Scottish music, of a road trip drive on a single track road with passing places on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Foss by Loch Tummel in the Highlands of Perthshire. The church of Foss was founded by St Chad about 650, but the church on the site became a ruin at the time of the Reformation, and it was not until about 1820 that this new church was built on the old site. Foss is a hamlet and a parish in Perthshire. The hamlet stands near the right bank of the river Tummel, 1½ miles West South West of the head of Loch Tummel, and 12 miles West of Pitlochry. John Stewart, the gamekeeper at Foss, and his family, are thought to have emigrated to Canada around 1859. They settled on the 2nd Concession, McNab township. McNab township was created in 1825, comprising roughly 80,000 acres of unsettled land, covering the current Town of Arnprior and Township of McNab, Braeside. It was granted by the government to Archibald 13th Laird of McNab, born 1779, died 1860, who had fled from his debts in Scotland. He promised to settle it with Highland clansmen, and the first group of eighty four settlers arrived the same year, 1825. McNab ruled with an iron fist over the Scottish settlers. Only after eighteen years of petitions, court battles, and appeals was his grip loosened when the government finally began issuing Crown grants to the settlers. His feudal powers removed, the Laird eventually sold his lands to the government and returned to Europe in 1852, never to return. 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. This road is only wide enough for one vehicle. It has special passing places. If you see a vehicle coming towards you, or the driver behind wants to overtake, try to pull into a passing place on your left, or wait opposite a passing place on your right. Give way to vehicles coming uphill whenever you can All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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