Tour Scotland Video May Drive To Gateside Fife

Tour Scotland video of a sunny May drive East on the A91 road to Gateside on ancestry visit to Fife, Scotland. Gateside won a competition in 2012 and was named the Friendliest Street in the UK. The River Eden runs through this Scottish village, which flows to the coast at St Andrews and then into the North Sea. The nearest large city is Perth, Perthshire, although Edinburgh is only half an hour away, and Glasgow one hour away.

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Tour Scotland Video May Drive To Visit Burleigh Castle Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of a sunny May drive through the small town of Milnathort on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to the ruined remains of Burleigh Castle in Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle dates from the 15th and 16th centuries. The lands of Burleigh were held by the Balfours from 1446, when they were granted by James II to John Balfour of Balgarvie, and a tower house was erected in the late 15th or early 16th century. Sir James Balfour of Pittendreich extended the castle in the late 16th century, adding a curtain wall with a corner tower, and other outbuildings. In 1607 his son Sir Michael Balfour was raised to the peerage as Lord Balfour of Burleigh. Legend tells how Robert Balfour, before his accession as 5th Lord, narrowly escaped death when, in 1707, he was sentenced to beheading for the murder of the schoolmaster of Inverkeithing, who had the misfortune to have married Balfour's childhood sweetheart. Escaping from Edinburgh tolbooth, Balfour joined the Jacobite cause, proclaiming the 'Old Pretender' James Stuart king at Lochmaben, and fighting in the 1715 rising. Following the defeat of the Jacobites, Balfour was attainted, dying in France in 1757. The castle was forfeit to the Irwins, then passed to the Grahams of Kinross.

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Tour Scotland Video May Drive From Bridgend Perth Into Scone Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a May sunny afternoon drive North on the A94 road from Bridgend in Perth, to Scone, Perthshire, Scotland. The village of Scone dates back to 1885 when the Scone Old Church was built.

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Tour Scotland Video May Drive From Forth Road Bridge To Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland May video of a sunny drive over the Forth Road Bridge and North up the M90 motorway all the way to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish road originates in Edinburgh, it the travels west and over the Forth Road Bridge, before turning into the M90 motorway. At Perth, the M90 again becomes the A90, now running north east to Dundee and through the Kingsway road system. It then passes Forfar, Brechin, Stracathro, the site of an ancient Roman Camp, Stonehaven, Bridge of Muchalls, where the Burn of Muchalls flows under, near Muchalls Castle, near Saint Ternan's Church, Newtonhill, Portlethen, from there through the city of Aberdeen, crossing the Ythan Estuary, on to Peterhead on its way to Fraserburgh.

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Tour Scotland Video May Drive From Edinburgh To Forth Railway Bridge South Queensferry

Tour Scotland May video of a sunny drive from Edinburgh on the A90 road then the B924 road to the Forth Railway Bridge in South Queensferry, Scotland. The B924 road passes the entrance to Dalmeny House, a mansion dating back to 1817, at a junction with an unclassified road giving access to the village of Dalmeny, before heading steeply downhill into Queensferry. The road passes under the Forth Bridge.

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