Tour Scotland April Video Drive To St Andrews Fife
Tour Scotland April video of a drive to visit St Andrews from Anstruther in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. St Andrews is named after Saint Andrew the Apostle. There has been an important church in St Andrews since at least the 8th century, and a bishopric since at least the 11th century. The settlement grew to the west of St Andrews cathedral with the southern side of the Scores to the north and the Kinness burn to the south. The burgh soon became the ecclesiastical capital of Scotland, a position which was held until the Scottish Reformation. The famous cathedral, the largest in Scotland, now lies in ruins. St Andrews is also known worldwide as the home of golf. This is in part because the Royal and Ancient Golf Club was founded in 1754.
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Tour Scotland April Video Daffodils Viewpoint Pittenweem East Neuk Of Fife
Tour Scotland video of daffodils at a viewpoint above Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Very sunny and quite windy this morning. Until 1975 Pittenweem was a royal burgh, having been awarded the status by King James V in 1541. Founded as a fishing village around a probably early Christian religious settlement, it grew along the shoreline from the west where the sheltered beaches were safe places for fishermen to draw their boats up out of the water. Later a breakwater was built, extending out from one of the rocky skerries that jut out south west into the Firth of Forth like fingers. This allowed boats to rest at anchor rather than being beached, enabling larger vessels to use the port.
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Tour Scotland April Video Golfers 18th Green Old Golf Course St Andrews Fife
Tour Scotland April video of golfers on the 18th green of the Old Golf Course in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. The Old Course at St Andrews is considered by many to be the " home of golf " because the sport was first played on the Links at St Andrews in the early 1400s. Members played on what would become the Old Course, but because it was the only course St Andrews had, it was not yet known as the Old Course. Golf was becoming increasingly popular in Scotland until in 1457, when James II of Scotland banned golf because he felt that young men were playing too much golf instead of practicing their archery. The ban was held by the following kings of Scotland until 1502, when King James IV became a golfer himself and decided to remove the ban on golf.
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Old Photograph Family Picnic Pitlochry Perthshire Scotland
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Old Photograph Man On Horse Perth Scotland
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