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 Winter video of part of the drive to Glen Devon on the A823 road through the Ochil Hills after visit to Gleneagles, Perthshire, Scotland. Glen Devon is a picturesque glen in Perthshire, located near the small town of Auchterarder. The glen stretches south eastwards from the source of the River Devon to Yetts o' Muckhart.
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Tour Scotland Winter travel video of part of a road trip drive to Gleneagles, Perthshire, on ancestry, genealogy, history visit over the Ochil Hill. The name's origin has nothing to do with eagles, and is a corruption of eaglais or ecclesia, meaning church, and refers to the chapel and well of Saint Mungo, which was restored as a memorial to the Haldane family which owns the Gleneagles estate.
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Old photograph of Innerwick located five miles from Dunbar, Scotland. Innerwick Castle was originally a Stewart stronghold, then passed to a grandson of Walter Fitz Gilbert de Hamilton, and remained in the Hamilton family, until its destruction. Alongside nearby, Thornton Castle, a fortalice owing allegiance to the Earls of Home, it was destroyed after a siege by the invading forces of the Duke of Somerset, during the Rough Wooing. James William Hunter was born at Thurston Manor near Innerwick in Eastin 1783, the son of Robert Hunter of Thurston Manor and his wife Isabella Ord. The family was related to the Hunters of Hunterston. From around 1798 he served in India then returned to Scotland to run the family estates following the death of his father.His main claim to fame is the improvement to the mechanical odometer in 1827, creating a single-handed and single-wheeled device, setting a series of three 100-tooth cogs against 101-tooth cogs, attached to a wheel of circumference either 6 or 10 feet.[1] This created a very convenient apparatus for land measurement, and is still the basis for modern day mechanical surveying odometers. The larger version was attached to the rear of a carriage and was the first known instrument calculating total vehicle distance travelled in a precise and visually clear way. In 1820 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He died in Leamington (where the family held a second estate) on 3 December 1844.
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Old photograph of Witch Knowe, Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland. There were local witch hunts and trials in Inverkeithing, which only abated, according to tradition, when the wives of the magistrates were accused.
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