Tour Scotland Video April Drive Through Cellardyke East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of an April, Spring road trip drive through James Street, John Street and George Street on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Cellardyke, East Neuk of Fife. I was raised in this old fishing village on the East coast and attended Cellardyke Primary School and Waid Academy in Ansruther. I was raised a Dyker. Cellardyke was formerly known as Nether Kilrenny, Scots for Lower Kilrenny, or Sillerdyke, and the harbour as Skinfast Haven, a name which can still be found on maps today. The harbour was built in the 16th century and was rebuilt between 1829 and 1831. By 1860 Cellardyke was a thriving town, with more than fifty boat owners and skippers year round, and one hundred other captains joining in for the annual herring fishing drive or Lammas drave which took place around the Lammas festival on August 1st. There was also a February surge in fishing, when shoals of herring arrived in the Firth of Forth. The fish curers of Cellardyke salted and smoked cod and herring from Anstruther as well as their own fish, sending some to London, and some as far as the West Indies. The village is located on the Fife Coastal Path.

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Tour Scotland Video Drive From Errol To Invergowrie Perthshire

Tour Scotland Spring travel video of a road trip drive from Errol on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Invergowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. Invergowrie village is located on the north west bank of the Firth of Tay to the west of Dundee. The village was formerly part of the estate of Mylnefield. The quarry at Invergowrie supplied important sites around the UK, stone being included in the base of Nelson's column and St Katherine's Docks in London. The quarry workers hit a spring at the beginning of the 20th century and the quarry filled with water.

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Tour Scotland Video Drive To Hawkstone Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a drive to the village of Hawkstone, to visit the Hawkstane standing stone on ancestry visit near St Madoes in the Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. This stone is connected with the Hays of Errol, and the Falcon Stone near Knapp. Clan Hay is a Scottish clan that has played an important part in the history and politics of Scotland. Members of the clan are to be found in most parts of Scotland and in many other parts of the world. However, the North East of Scotland, i.e. Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, Morayshire and Nairnshire are the heart of Hay country with other significant concentrations of Hays being found in Perthshire, especially around Perth, in the Scottish Borders, and in Shetland.

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Tour Scotland Video Drive To Unicorn Mercat Cross Errol Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of a road trip drive to the Unicorn Mercat Cross on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Errol, Perthshire, Scotland. At the top of the Mercat Cross, also known as a Market Cross, is a Unicorn. The Unicorn was believed to be the natural enemy of the lion, a symbol that the English royals adopted. According to folklore, the lion and the unicorn hated each other, a tradition going back to the ancient Babylonians in 3,500 B.C. The Unicorn became Scotland’s national animal in the late 1300s. Errol village is located about halfway between Dundee and Perth. It is one of the principal settlements of the Carse of Gowrie. Errol is twinned with Mardié, a village on the Loire near Orléans in France.

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Tour Scotland Video Drive A90 To All Saints' Church In Glencarse Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a drive East on the A90 road to All Saints' Church on ancestry visit to Glencarse, Perthshire, Scotland. The style of architecture of the church, designed by Mr Blackadder of Perth, is English Domestic Gothic, and the walls are of pitch pine and cement. The church was consecrated by the Bishop of Brechin, the Right Reverend Dr Hugh Willoughby Jermyn, on the 25th April 1878. It was established as a mission church, free of debt, most of the money having been provided by Lord Kinnaird, Mr Greig of Glencarse House and Colonel Drummond-Hay of Seggieden. Mr Greig gave a most appropriate site with a southerly aspect and a sunny location. Up to that date Episcopalians were forbidden to assemble at meetings exceeding nine persons for religious worship. Such meeting were usually private houses, or even fields. The Episcopal congregations of Glencarse in the eighteenth century had meeting houses in Inchyra and Pitroddie. Inchyra was a busy mediaeval trading village with its pier and ferry. Pitroddie, formerly known as Battrodie, once a burial place of Druids, had a thriving population based on the quarrying industry. These meeting houses can be regarded as as the forerunners of All Saints' Glencarse. No part of the grounds can be used for burials or the interrment of ashes, the traditional burial ground being that of the old parish church at Kinfauns, about two miles west of Glencarse.

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