Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Tour Scotland photograph of Clunie Churchyard, Perthshire, Scotland. Clunie is a small village in Perthshire, Scotland, a few miles west of Blairgowrie. Fragments of the medieval church have been rebuilt in a small structure that probably served as a watchtower to the south of the present church, while some other fragments are to be found elsewhere within the churchyard.
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Tour Scotland photograph of Clunie Church, Perthshire, Scotland. Clunie is a small village in Perthshire, Scotland, a few miles west of Blairgowrie. It lies on the western shore of the Loch of Clunie. Near the village are the foundations of what is believed to have been be a castle used by Kenneth MacAlpin, the first king of Scotland, as a base for hunting in the nearby royal forest of Clunie. The church, erected in 1840, at the expense of the heritors, is a handsome structure in the later English style, with an embattled tower crowned by turrets at the angles.
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Tour Scotland photograph of Loch Of Clunie, Perthshire, Scotland. A beautiful morning at Loch of Clunie, with nice reflections in the loch. The Loch of Clunie is located close to the main road between the towns of Dunkeld and Blairgowrie. The area around the loch is popular with walkers, birdwatchers, and trout fishing is also available. The name Clunie derives from the Scots Gaelic word meaning " meadow ".
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Tour Scotland photograph of the Elisabeth Blyth gravestone, Monimail graveyard, North Fife, Scotland. Elisabeth Blyth, died February 18th, 1784, aged 77.
Blyth is an ancient Scottish name of locational origin, from the old barony of Blyth in the " lordship" of Lauderdale ", in what is now the Borders region. The place was originally named from the Old English pre 7th Century " blithe ", merry, cheerful, perhaps on account of its pleasant situation, or from a nearby river, which would have been so named for its merry, chattering sound. One James Blyth is recorded in ancient charters of the Earldom of Morton, in 1485, as a burgess of Dundee, and William Blitht was admitted burgess of Aberdeen in 1488. Richard Blyth was Member of Parliament for Dundee in 1567. Blyth was a common name among the Border Gypsies, a late " Queen " being Esther Faa Blyth, who died in July 1883. Among recordings of the name in Edinburgh is that of the marriage of Ludovick Blyth and Bessie Morrison, on January 17th 1673, and the christening of John, son of Thomas and Anna Blyth, on January 23rd 1677. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of William de Blyth, which was dated 1296.
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Tour Scotland photograph of the old Church, Monimail, North Fife, Scotland. The remains of a pre Reformation church, with several interesting gravestones. Old church not used since 1796. Crest in aisle inscribed George Earl Melville, dating it to after 1690 when the title was created. Cemetery walls linked to Melville Garden walls.
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