Tour Scotland Photograph Long Shadows Parish Church Crail East Neuk Of Fife January 21st

Tour Scotland photograph shot this afternoon of long shadows at the Parish Church in Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. We have fairly short days of daylight in January in Scotland. By 1pm today the trees were casting long shadows.

Tour Scotland photograph shot this afternoon of the Parish Church in Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The Parish Kirk of Crail was founded in the second half of the twelfth century, though the site appears to have older religious associations. In its first form it consisted of an unaisled rectangular nave and chancel of romanesque design.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Parish Church Kingsbarns East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland travel photograph of the Parish Church on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to in Kingsbarns, East Neuk of Fife. This Scottish Church was built around 1630, receiving substantial alterations between 1810 and 1811 at the hand of Robert Balfour. The church faces south towards The Square, the central focus of the village of Kingsbarns. It is located within a graveyard, which is surrounded by a substantial coped wall. The church itself is built on a T plan with a south tower and west porch. The body of the church is harled with a Scottish slate roof. The harling is degrading on all faces of the building, revealing rough courses of squared sandstone and some interesting rough snecking on the north elevation of the main cell. The tower is built from ashlar and is capped by a spire with alternating bands of square and fishscale slate.


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Tour Scotland Photograph Cambo House Kingsbarns East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland travel photograph of Cambo House on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip by Kingsbarn, East Neuk of Fife. The estate of Cambo was granted to Robert de Newenham by a charter of King William the Lion. His descendents took the name "de Cambhou", and had settled in Fife by the early 14th century. Sir John de Cambhou fought at the Battle of Methven in 1306, but was captured by the English and hanged at Newcastle. In 1599 the estate was granted to Thomas Myretoun. In 1668, Sir Charles Erskine, the Lord Lyon King of Arms and brother of the 3rd Earl of Kellie, purchased the property from the creditors of Patrick Merton. The estate passed through the Erskine family to the 5th Earl of Kellie, who forfeited his lands after supporting the Jacobite rising of 1745. In 1759 Cambo was sold to the Charteris family, who bought it for their son who was studying at St Andrews University. Thomas Erskine, 9th Earl of Kellie bought the estate back in the 1790s. A successful merchant in Sweden, he invested heavily in improving the estate, building the picturesque Georgian estate farms, and carrying out extensive land drainage. He commissioned the architect Robert Balfour to remodel the house in 1795. His descendents continued the improvement of the estate through the 19th century, laying out ornamental gerdens, with a series of early cast iron bridges. The old house comprised a tower house with numerous additions, including a first-floor conservatory. It was destroyed by fire in 1878, after a staff party when the Erskine family was away. The present house was built on the same site between 1879 and 1884, to designs by the architects Wardrop & Reid.


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Tour Scotland Photographs Anstruther East Neuk Of Fife January 21st

Tour Scotland photograph shot this morning of houses by the shore in Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. A beautiful, sunny morning in Anstruther, mind you it was very windy and a wee bit chilly as well. I always take my tour guests to the village where I was raised in Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph shot this morning of houses by the shore in Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph shot this morning of houses by the shore in Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

Tour Scotland video shot this morning of houses by the shore in Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph shot this morning of the coastline at Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph shot this morning of the Wee Chippy in Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.



Tour Scotland video shot of the coastline at Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph shot this morning of the Illy Cafe in Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This is a superb wee cafe and coffee shop where I always eat breakfast when I walk the Fife Coastal Path.

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Tour Scotland Photographs Video Pittenweem East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland photograph of the coastline at Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Bright sunshine, and the tide coming in at Pittenweem.

Tour Scotland photograph of the coastline at Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of the coastline at Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The Isle of May on the horizon.



Tour Scotland video shot of the coastline at Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

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