Old Photograph Postman Nunraw Abbey Scotland

Old photograph of a postman delivering mail to a Monk at Nunraw Abbey by Haddington, Scotland. Nunraw Abbey or Sancta Maria Abbey, Nunraw is a working Trappist ( Ordo Cisterciensis Strictioris Observantiae ) monastery. It was the first Cistercian house to be founded in Scotland since the Reformation. Founded in 1946 by monks from Mount St. Joseph Abbey, Roscrea, Ireland, and consecrated as an Abbey in 1948, it nestles at the foot of the Lammermuir Hills on the southern edge of East Lothian. The estate of the abbey is technically called White Castle after an early hill-fort on the land. Originally owned by the Cistercian Nuns of Haddington, the area that they settled becoming known as Nunraw, meaning Nun's Row. The Nunnery of Haddington was founded by Ada de Warenne, Countess of Huntingdon and daughter of the Earl of Surrey, soon after the death of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, and the small evidence that is available suggests that Nunraw was a Grange of that convent.



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Tour Scotland Video Queensferry Crossing From Port Edgar

Tour Scotland video of the Queensferry Crossing road bridge from the Marina at Port Edgar by South Queensferry, Scotland. The bridge was built alongside the existing Forth Road Bridge and carries the M90 motorway across the Firth of Forth between Lothian, at South Queensferry, and Fife, at North Queensferry. Bought by the Admiralty in 1916 as the site of a future Naval base,the pier at Port Edgar near South Queensferry had been regularly used by Royal Navy ships since the 1850s. Shortly after its purchase the wounded of the Battle of Jutland were landed at Port Edgar for the Royal Naval Hospital at Butlaw, South Queensferry. The dead of the battle were buried in the local cemetery at South Queensferry. In recent years, it has become a busy marina with a sailing school with 300 berths.

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Tour Scotland Video The Three Bridges Over Firth Of Forth

Tour Scotland video of the three bridges which span three centuries at the Firth of Forth between South Queensferry in Lothian and North Queensferry in Fife, Scotland. The Queensferry Crossing is the latest road bridge, the Forth Road Bridge is a suspension bridge which opened in 1964, and the Forth cantilever railway bridge which was opened on 4 March 1890.

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Tour Scotland Video Cruise Boat Sailing Under Queensferry Crossing Firth Of Forth

Tour Scotland video of a cruise boat sailing under the Queensferry Crossing road bridge which spans the Firth of Forth in Scotland. The bridge was built alongside the existing Forth Road Bridge and carries the M90 motorway across the Firth of Forth between Lothian, at South Queensferry, and Fife, at North Queensferry.

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Tour Scotland Video Luskentyre Beach Isle of Harris Outer Hebrides

Tour Scotland video of Luskentyre Beach, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. The name Luskentyre derives from Lios-cinn-tir, meaning, headland fort, although there is no trace or local knowledge of a fort at the headland. However, the headland contains the site of an old part of Luskentyre Cemetery. Luskentyre Beach has been voted Britain's best beach. Luskentyre is accessible from the A859, via a minor road. Wildlife in the area includes the common scoter, the velvet scoter, the Eider duck, the wigeon, the long-tailed duck, the red-breasted merganser, the great northern diver and the Slavonian grebe.

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