Tour Scotland 4K early Winter travel video of a long road trip drive, with music, on single track Scottish roads on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the parish church and cemetery in the village of Glen Prosen in the Braes of Angus. The present church built 1802, paid for by local inhabitants, ensuring continuous worship in the glen for nearly 400 years. It is a simple traditional white washed church. The Minister’s Road leads from here to Glen Clova, so named because the Minister used to walk it twice each Sunday. Before the first World War, Prosen was a village with nearly 50 homes, a water powered corn and sawmill, a school, pub, post office and blacksmith. Today, few of the homes that existed on the eve of war are left. Following the the end of the war, 25 men chose not to come back to a life of drudgery to work for the estates, depriving the glen of bloodlines. For the men who did come back, life resumed much as before, with long hours and isolation. But people continued to leave from Prosen and hundreds of other glens, often to the west of Scotland, sometimes for a new life in Australia, Canada and others parts of the world. Glen Prosen is located between Glen Isla and Glen Clova. There is no road through to the north, only hill tracks. But vehicles can make a circular route from Kirriemuir by coming up the glen via Cortachy, crossing the Prosen river at Spott, and descending again via Pearsie. When driving in Scotland, slow down and enjoy the trip.
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