Tour Scotland Photograph Insh Church and Cemetery Aviemore Cairngorms

Tour Scotland photograph of Insh Church and cemetery near, Aviemore, Scotland. Alvie and Insh Parish Church of Scotland is located in Kincraig close to Aviemore in Cairngorms National Park. Insh Church, is situated in a beautiful setting, high up, at the edge of Loch Insh. Although there are no written records in the church, prior to 1838, it is known that the church was extensively renovated in 1790. Around the same time, Thomas Telford designed two Manse houses. One for Insh Church and the other for Rothiemurchus. The manse for Insh church is now Insh Guest House, a new manse for Insh Church having being built at Alvie in 1810. Insh church was in a state of constant repair from the time of the renovations, and in 1861 an appeal was made to Sir George MacPherson-Grant for help. The appeal stated that the church was in a deplorable condition, and that it was also some distance away from the crofting community in Insh village.





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Old Photograph Doune of Rothiemurchus Aviemore Scotland

Old photograph of Doune of Rothiemurchus, Aviemore, Scotland. Family home of the Grants of Rothiemurchus. Home of Elizabeth Grant, born 1797, who here wrote her Memoirs of a Highland Lady. Elizabeth Grant was the daughter of the 9th Laird, John Peter and his wife Jane. She was the eldest of five children and spent her life travelling between Edinburgh, London, India and France before settling down in Ireland on the property of her husband, Colonel Henry Smith.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Sheepdogs Herding Ducks

Tour Scotland photograph of Scottish sheepdogs herding ducks, just South of Aviemore, Cairngorm National Park, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Winter Photograph Winter Aviemore

Tour Scotland Winter photograph of the railway station in Aviemore, Scotland. The village began to grow as a result of it becoming a railway junction in 1898. Aviemore was one of the first skiing resorts to be established in Scotland. It is now a major Scottish a town and tourist resort. The station, which is owned by Network Rail and managed by Abellio ScotRail, is on the Highland Main Line between Perth and Inverness, and is also the southern terminus of the Strathspey preserved railway. The current station was opened in 1898, to designs by the architect William Roberts when the " direct " line to Inverness via Slochd was built, making Aviemore an important junction and replacing the original 1863 building. William Roberts also provided an engine shed to the north of the station in 1896. It became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway after the Grouping of 1923, then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.



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