Tour Scotland Video Cloudy Drive Kingsway Road Dundee Tayside

Tour Scotland video of a cloudy drive West on the Kingsway road to the Invergowrie Roundabout to Perth, Perthshire, on ancestry visit to Dundee, Scotland. The Kingsway was built in two parts in the 1930s. The eastern part was dual carriageway with a broad central reservation, the western part was a rural single carriageway. Junctions on both parts were either simple crossroads, later with traffic lights, or roundabouts. In the 1980s, the western half of the Kingsway was dualled, with two large grade separated junctions, although the speed limit reduces as you travel eastwards. The eastern half remains almost as built, although it has seen some modification in recent years. A double roundabout replaced the lights where the A90 now turns north, when the junction was redesigned with traffic lights again due to the high volume of traffic.

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Tour Scotland Video Cloudy Drive From Perth To Victoria Docks In Dundee

Tour Scotland video of a cloudy drive East on the A90 road all the way from Perth, Perthshire, on ancestry visit to Victoria Docks in Dundee, Scotland. Construction of Victoria dock was begun in 1833 by the Dundee Harbour engineer, James Leslie, born 1801, died 1889, to a design by Thomas Telford, born 1757, died 1834. However, it was not completed until 1875. Occupying 10.7 acres, this was one of the largest enclosed docks in Scotland. Today, Victoria Dock is used as a marina, part of the City Quay redevelopment. Permanently anchored in the dock are HM Frigate Unicorn, the oldest British built ship afloat anywhere in the world, and the former North Carr lightship.

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Tour Scotland Video Cloudy Day Drive To Claypotts Castle Dundee

Tour Scotland video of a cloudy day drive to Claypotts Castle in the suburban West Ferry area of Dundee, Scotland. It is one of the best preserved examples of a 16th century Z-plan tower house in Scotland. The land on which the castle was built was originally leased by the Strachan family from the Tironensian Abbey of Lindores in Fife starting in the early 16th century. In 1601 the Strachan family sold the castle to Sir William Graham of Ballunie who later sold it to Sir William Graham of Claverhouse. The castle became the property of the crown in 1689 after the death of the then current owner Viscount Dundee John Graham of Claverhouse at the battle of Killiecrankie. In 1694 the castle was given to James Douglas, 2nd Marquess of Douglas. The castle later became the property of his son the Duke of Douglas and after his death in 1761 became the subject of a legal battle for the next eight years until the courts ruled Archibald Douglas to be heir. Ownership later passed to the 13th Earl of Home through marriage.

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Tour Scotland Video Cloudy Day Drive From Dundee To Castle In Broughty Ferry

Tour Scotland video of a cloudy day drive from Dundee to the castle in Broughty Ferry, Scotland. The castle is a historic castle on the banks of the River Tay. It was completed around 1495, although the site was earlier fortified in 1454 when George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus received permission to build on the site. His son Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus was coerced into ceding the castle to the crown. The main tower house forming the centre of the castle with four floors was built by Andrew, 2nd Lord Gray who was granted the castle in 1490. The castle saw military action during the 16th century War of the Rough Wooing. After the battle of Pinkie in September 1547 it was surrendered by purchase to the English by its owner, Lord Gray of Foulis. The Earl of Argyll tried to capture the castle on 22 November 1547 and again in January 1548 with 150 men led by the soldier Duncan Dundas, without success. The castle was attacked again, in 1651, by General Monck and his Parliamentary army during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. On this occasion the Royalist defenders fled without a fight. After 1666, when the Gray family sold the castle.

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Tour Scotland Video Summer Drive To The Parish Church In Muthill Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a Summer drive to the Parish Church on ancestry visit to Muthill, Perthshire, Scotland. Once an important religious centre and the site of a Celí Dé monastery. The church here also served for a time as a seat of the Bishops of Strathearn, later Dunblane, before the building of the cathedral at Dunblane in the 13th century. The village was largely destroyed in the 1715 to 1716 Jacobite rising, being rebuilt in the 1740s as it lay on the route of General Wade's military road through Strathearn. The kirkyard at the centre of the small town contains the ruins of an important 15th century parish church, which incorporates an 11th century bell-tower, built on the orders of Michael Ochiltree, Bishop of Dunblane.

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