Tour Scotland Self Catering Holiday Cottages Recommendations Ballachulish Glencoe

Tour Scotland self catering holiday cottage recommendation in Ballachulish near Glencoe, Scotland.

3 Angus Crescent is a charming semi detached cottage in the village of Ballachulish in the Scottish Highlands, and can sleep five people in three bedrooms. The cottage can sleep five people in three bedrooms, including one double, one single and one ground floor twin along with a ground floor shower room. The ground floor also contains a sitting room with an electric fire and a kitchen with dining area and doors that lead to the rear garden. Outside there is off road parking, lockable bike storage and an enclosed gravelled garden with furniture. Ballachulish and the surrounding area provides some of the most dramatic and beautiful scenery in Scotland. The village itself is situated on the banks of unspoilt Loch Leven and is just a mile from Glencoe. Ballachulish attracts many visitors throughout the year and is a perfect base for those wishing to enjoy outdoor pursuits. The village has excellent local services including a village shop, coffee shop, post office, pubs and hotels and it also has its own Tourist Information Centre and gift shop. With nearby Kinlochleven providing the Ice Factor, an indoor ice and rock climbing centre, Fort William 15 miles to the North providing its famous Nevis Range and Glencoe 1 mile south, what an absolutely fabulous holiday location this is.

Strathassynt Cottage is a two bedroom cottage in the West Highland Village of Ballachulish. Comfortable lounge with reclining sofas and chairs, TV with Sky and DVD, and a real fire; dining kitchen with a full range of appliances, and two ensuite bedrooms, one double and one twin with space for an extra bed. A comfortable and cozy family retreat, or a great base for a group of friends wishing to explore. Perfect for the outdoor enthusiast or those just looking to get away from it all and do a little soul recharge. There's a large DVD library available, and a stack of board games for family fun time. Ballachulish is a peaceful village on the A82 main route from Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stirling to Fort William, Oban and on to the Isles of Skye and Mull, Loch Ness and Inverness. We have a Co-op supermarket close by, and the historic Laroch pub/restaurant serving excellent pub food is right across the road.

Stone Cottage provides magnificent views across Loch Leven, whilst the rear facing bedrooms provide scenic woodland views over the cottage grounds, which are close to one acre in size and include a stream and open waterways. The cottage is a short stroll away from both Glencoe and Ballachullish villages, as well as being a few hundred yards for the popular gift and coffee shop Crafts and Things which is an ideal place to relax and enjoy a leisurely breakfast or sample a fine selection of refreshments after your invigorating day out in the mountains. The cottage is an ideal base for walkers and climbers to explore the local area. Watersports and activity centre are either a short walk away or a short drive, so ideal for the family wanting to undertake an activity holiday.

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Tour Scotland Video Battlefield Site Prestonpans East Lothian

Tour Scotland video of the Battlefied site on ancestry visit to Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland. A replica of the standard raised by Bonnie Prince Charlie at Glenfinnan in 1745 flying above the viewing platform overlooking the ground on which the Battle of Prestonpans was fought during the second Jacobite Rising. Its colours are the red, white and blue of the Stuart dynasty. This was the first significant conflict in the Jacobite Rising of 1745. The battle took place at 4 am on 21 September 1745. The Jacobite army loyal to James Francis Edward Stuart and led by his son Charles Edward Stuart defeated the government army loyal to the Hanoverian George II led by Sir John Cope.

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Tour Scotland Video Northfield House Doocot Prestonpans East Lothian

Tour Scotland video of Northfield House Doocot on ancestry visit to Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland. 16th century Scottish beehive shaped doocot also known as a dovecot with a flattish domed covered roof. It contains approximately 600 stone nests and is still in use. A dovecote or dovecot is a structure intended to house pigeons or doves. Dovecotes may be free standing structures in a variety of shapes, or built into the end of a house or barn. They generally contain pigeonholes for the birds to nest. Pigeons and doves were an important food source historically in Western Europe and were kept for their eggs, flesh, and dung. In Scotland the tradition is continued in modern urban areas.

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Tour Scotland Video Preston Tower Prestonpans East Lothian

Tour Scotland video of Preston Tower on ancestry visit to Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland. The name Preston means Priest town and the land was first owned by the monks of Newbattle Abbey in Dalkeith. Preston Tower is just one of a chain of some ten Hamilton strongholds running from Brodick Castle on the Isle of Arran in the west to Innerwick Castle near Dunbar in the east. This Scottish tower was badly damaged by fire on three occasions. First in 1544 by the English during the wars of the Rough Wooing where by the method of castle burning they hoped to force the marriage of the infant Mary Queen of Scots to the English Prince Edward. Secondly, it was burnt by Oliver Cromwell in 1650 during his systematic destruction of Lothian castles after his victory over the Scots at the battle of Dunbar. Finally, the tower was accidentally set ablaze in 1663. Preston Tower was purchased by the National Trust for Scotland in 1969. It is currently under the guardianship of East Lothian Council.

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Tour Scotland Video Beam Engine Prestongrange Museum East Lothian

Tour Scotland video of the old Beam Engine on visit to Prestongrange Museum, East Lothian, Scotland. The beam engine is a Cornish engine, an early type of steam engine, used to pump water from the coal mine to prevent the workings from becoming flooded. It was manufactured by J. E. Mare & Company of Plymouth, England, to the design of engineers Hocking & Loam and used in three different mines in Cornwall before being purchased by the Prestongrange Coal and Iron Company in 1874 and shipped north. It was bought from a Cornish Mine site by Harvey and Company of Hayle, who sold it on to Prestongrange complete with a new beam of their own manufacture. The engine was installed in a new engine house, whose front wall is nearly 7 feet thick in order to support the main pivot bearing of the huge cast iron beam. The engine continued operating until 1954, when it was superseded by electric pumps, only eight years before the colliery closed. The engine is the only example in Scotland

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