Tour Scotland Video River Tay Newburgh Fife

Tour Scotland video of a fishing boat in the River Tay by Newburgh, Fife, Scotland. Newburgh is built on the south bank of the River Tay opposite Mugdrum Island where the navigable channel of South Deep runs right along the riverbank. By the mid 1800s Newburgh harbour, then comprising a quay running along the riverside and four jetties at right angles to it, was home to 40 boats, mostly engaged in salmon or sprat fishing. in the town of Newburgh businesses thrived, including no fewer than 35 pubs or inns. The railway arrived in Newburgh in 1848, but the surrounding topography meant the station had to be at quite high level on the slopes south of the High Street. The absence of a rail link to the harbour contributed to the latter's decline over the century that followed and by the late 1980s the quay was virtually unused. Today the riverside area of Newburgh is steadily being occupied by new housing.

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Tour Scotland Video Mugdrum Island Firth Of Tay Newburgh Fife

Tour Scotland video of Mugdrum Island in the River Tay, offshore from the town of Newburgh, Fife, Scotland. Mugdrum's name is from muc-dhruim, the Scottish Gaelic for hog back. However, this was applied to the coast opposite in Perthshire, which part it was named for. The reeds on the island were once harvested for thatching houses and cottages and for protecting potatoes during transshipment. Until 1926, a 50 acre farm grew cereals, potatoes and turnips in the island's alluvial soil. It is now a nature reserve under the stewardship of the Tay Valley Wildfowlers' Association.

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Tour Scotland Video Bear On The Hill Above Newburgh Fife

Tour Scotland video of the Bear above the new whisky distillery by Lindores Abbey in Newburgh, Fife, Scotland. The bear on the hill was cut for a local festival and community project in 1980. I, Sandy Stevenson, was the organiser of that project, having been the community worker in Newburgh after the Linoleum Factory closed down. The outline was ploughed by Wendell Wilkie a worker from Parkhill Farm, and permission for the outline was given by Mr. Tom Howieson from Parkhill Farm. The bear is a depiction of a stone called the bear stone, from which the Bear Tavern takes its name, and was originally set into the abbot’s residence at Lindores Abbey.

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Tour Scotland Video New Whisky Distillery Being Built At Historic Lindores Abbey Newburgh Fife

Tour Scotland video of the new Whisky Distillery being built at Historic Lindores Abbey in Newburgh, Fife, Scotland. An exchequer roll records that in 1494 one of the abbey's Tironension monks, Friar John Cor, paid duty on malt to make " aqua vitae " for King James IV. The Abbey was also visited by William Wallace and King John Baliol before it was sacked at the behest of the reformer John Knox in 1559.

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Tour Scotland Video Drive To West Sands Beach In St Andrews North East Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of a road trip drive up Abbey Road and along North Street to the West Sands Beach in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. The beach is famous for the opening scenes of the film Chariots of Fire.

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