Winter Snow With Music On Visit To The Palace And Moot Hill Scone By Perth Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K snow travel video, with Scottish music, of the Palace and Moot Hill on Storm Eunice visit to Scone by Perth, Perthshire. After the Scottish Reformation put an end to the Augustinian Abbey at Scone, the Ruthven family acquired the estate and built an imposing fortified residence around 1580. The Ruthvens could not steer clear of political conspiracy, however and the property was seized by the crown and ended up in the hands of the Murray family. The Murrays supported the Jacobite cause, and the 5th Viscount Stormont hosted The Old Pretender at Scone Palace during the 1715 rebellion. The Viscount was imprisoned for his actions, and so was his heir, the 6th Viscount, after his sisters hosted Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1745. In 1802 the 3rd Earl of Mansfield brought in William Atkinson to completely remodel his ancestral home in the fashionable Gothic Revival style. Atkinson would later design Abbotsford for Sir Walter Scott, but at Scone he designed a romanticised 19th century version of a medieval palace, incorporating parts of the 16th century house. The village of Scone got in the way of landscaping the grounds, so the entire village was moved 2 miles away. The surname Mansfield was first found in Nottinghamshire, England, at Mansfield, a market town that dates back to the Domesday Book of 1086 where it was listed as Mamesfelde. The various spellings include Mansfield, Manfield, Mansfeild and others. The Stone of Destiny on Moot Hill is where Kings of Scots, including Macbeth and King Robert The Bruce were crowned. Also known as Boot Hill and the Stone of Scone. The place of coronation was formerly called Caislean Credi, Hill of Credulity. Robert the Bruce was crowned at Scone in 1306 and the last coronation was of King Charles II , when he accepted the Scottish crown in 1651. The Coronation Stone was used for centuries in the coronation of the monarchs of Scotland and later the monarchs of England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. The Scottish weather forecast today was for snow rom 3am until 6pm across mainland, alongside warnings for ice from 6pm until 9am tomorrow morning. Officially, the Scottish winter runs from the 21st of December through to the 20th March. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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