Tour Scotland 4K early Winter travel video, with Scottish music, of a road trip drive East on the B936 road through Newton of Falkland on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Freuchie, Fife. Freuchie is a village at the foot of the Lomond Hills, and near Falkland Palace. The nearest major town is Glenrothes located 4 miles to the South. The name derives from the Scottish Gaelic, fraoch, meaning heather. Freuchie was once used by the Royal family as a place of banishment from the Court when it was in nearby Falkland Palace. There are many interesting 18th and 19th Century buildings including a Victorian Linen Mill and a church built in 1875. It is said that French masons working on the construction of Falkland Palace lived here during the 16th century and that the village was a place of exile for disgraced courtiers, hence the old saying Awa' tae Freuchie, whaur the Froggies live. When driving in Scotland, slow down and enjoy the trip.
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