Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Muirkirk

Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Muirkirk village in East Ayrshire, Scotland. The village developed around its church, which was built in 1631, and was a fertile recruiting ground for the Covenanter movement. Isabel Pagan, born 1740, died 1821, was a Scottish poet of the Romantic Era. Some of her poetry included; Ca' the Ewes to the Knowes, The Crook and Plaid, The Spinning Wheel and Muirkirk Light Weights, she died at the end of 1821 in her 80th year and was buried in the cemetery at Muirkirk. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Kirkliston

Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Kirkliston village located ten miles from Edinburgh, West Lothian, Scotland. It is located on the old road between Edinburgh and Linlithgow. In the 13th century the name was recorded as Temple Liston, referring to the Knights Templar, who possessed the Barony of Liston at the heart of the parish. Kirkliston was the location of the first recorded parliament in Scottish history; the Estates of Scotland met there in 1235, during the reign of King Alexander II. In June 1298 Edward Longshanks made camp at the town on his way to fight Sir William Wallace at the Battle of Falkirk. The oldest surviving building in Kirkliston is the kirk for which the town is named. Locally Kirkliston is often known as Cheesetown, a name first recorded in print in 1902. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Braco

Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Braco village in Perthshire, Scotland. It is located 5 miles north of Dunblane towards Perth off the A9 road. The village can also be accessed via the B8033 route which passes Ashfield and Kinbuck. Braco was established in 1815 following the sale or feu of lands owned by James Masterson. The founder of the English Football League William McGregor, was born in Braco in 1846. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Roman occupation on the Gask Ridge stretching across Scotland included the Roman Fort at Ardoch. The ramparts and ditches of the Roman camp are still plainly visible at Ardoch Roman Fort just north of Braco.

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Tour Scotland Video Old Photographs Busby

Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Busby located in East Renfrewshire near Glasgow. Busby's close proximity to Glasgow effectively makes it a suburb of the city, though it remains administratively separate. It lies on the White Cart Water 6 miles south of Glasgow City Centre. The first big change was in the landscape. Until the 1780s Busby village consisted of a scatter of cottages along a track leading from Carmunnock to Mearns. This route forded the River Cart to Newford at Bonnyton. This original village or fermtoun was in the area of the present Busby railway station. The second big change started in 1780 with the founding of Busby's first cotton mill. The third major change in Busby in the 1780s was the new road, from Paisley to East Kilbride. The first Busby Bridge was built on this route around 1785. A second Cotton Mill followed in 1790, then a Bleachfield and Printworks six years later. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Fintry

Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Fintry village in Stirlingshire, Scotland. A Scottish village nestled in the strath of the Endrick Water between the Campsie Fells and the Fintry Hills, some 19 miles north of Glasgow. The village is located at the head of the Strathendrick valley high up on the Endrick Water. Alexander Spiers built a water powered cotton mill and whisky distillery around 1789 and the village developed to serve the mill workers. Fintry is a Church of Scotland Parish in the Presbytery of Stirling. The kirk is located to the East of the village. The parish minister for Fintry is shared with Balfron with the Manse located there. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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