Tour Scotland 4K travel video of a sunny Winter road trip drive, with Scottish music, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the old parish church and cemetery in Blackford, Perthshire. The Parish of Blackford was formerly the Parish of Strageath founded by St Fergus in the eighth century. The Church at Blackford on the hill was founded at the time of the Reformation and it’s first minister Alex Gall was inducted in 1574. The Parish name was changed to Blackford in 1617 by an Act of Parliament. The church on the hill was burned in the middle of the 18th century and rebuilt but in 1858 it was no longer big enough and a new church was built in its place opening in 1859. The bell from the church on the hill is preserved in the new church and probably originally came from Strageath as the inscription on it is pre Reformation. Officially, the Scottish winter runs from the 21st of December through to the 20th March.
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