Tour Scotland 4K Spring travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes music, on the A917 road on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the church by Boarhills, Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. This Scottish village church is located four miles from St Andrews and five miles from Crail in the East Neuk. The Church is oriented east west and was built south west of the village of Boarhills by the local architect, George Rae between 1866 and 1868. The Reverend Robert Skinner, an Episcopal minister writing in 1870, describes the discovery of stone cists at the site of a new chapel at Chesterhill, which is almost certainly the church at Boarhills. The presence of the cists suggests that the graveyard is older than the present building and that there was probably an earlier building on the site. There are graveyards to the north and south, the latter still in use. All of the gravestones face East. George Rae was born in St Andrews on 1 October 1811 and was the first native St Andrews citizen to become an architect in the town. He came to architecture through the family craft of wheel wrighting, repairing wooden wheels, rather than through academic study. The first record of Rae as an architect is from the town council minutes of 1844, where he was consulted on the development of South Bell Street. Rae died on February 5th 1869 at Kinloch Manse after a long illness and is buried in the grounds of St Andrews Cathedral. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. When driving on Scottish roads in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip. The date for astronomical spring is Sunday 20th March, ending on Tuesday 21st June, while by the meteorological calendar, spring will start on Tuesday 1st March.. @tourscotland #spring #music #drivingtrip #scotland #bagpipes
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