Tour Scotland Video Autumn Drive Schiehallion Road Scottish Highlands

Tour Scotland Autumn video of a road trip drive on Schiehallion road, a winding single track road that connects Aberfeldy to Kinloch Rannoch in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. The name Schiehallion is an anglicised form of the Gaelic name Sìdh Chailleann, which translates as Fairy Hill of the Caledonians. It is also known to some as The Maiden's Pap, or Constant Storm. Schiehallion lies between Loch Tay and Loch Tummel, 10 miles north of Aberfeldy. Schiehallion's isolated position and regular shape led it to be selected by Charles Mason for a ground breaking experiment to estimate the mass of the Earth in 1774. The deflection of a pendulum by the mass of the mountain provided an estimate of the mean density of the Earth, from which its mass and a value for Newton's Gravitational constant G could be deduced. Mason turned down a commission to carry out the work and it was instead coordinated by Astronomer Royal, Nevil Maskelyne. He was assisted in the task by mathematician Charles Hutton, who devised a graphical system to represent large volumes of surveyed heights, later known as contour lines.

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Tour Scotland Video Autumn Drive General Wade's Military Road To Dalnarcardoch Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of an Autumn road trip drive on General Wade's Military single track road on ancestry visit to Dalnarcardoch in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. A network of military roads, sometimes called General Wade's Military Roads, was constructed in the Scottish Highlands during the middle part of the 18th century as part of an attempt by the British Government to bring order to a part of the country which had risen up in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715. The roads were constructed to link the Central Lowlands with a series of fortified barracks located strategically across the Highlands. George Wade, born 1673, died 14 March 1748, was a British Army officer who served in the Nine Years' War, War of the Spanish Succession, Jacobite rising of 1715 and War of the Quadruple Alliance before leading the construction of barracks, bridges and proper roads in Scotland. He went on to be a military commander during the War of the Austrian Succession and Commander in Chief of the Forces during the Jacobite rising of 1745.

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Tour Scotland Night Video Kelpies Horse Sculptures Forth And Clyde Canal Falkirk

Tour Scotland night video of The Kelpies by the Forth and Clyde Canal on visit to Falkirk, Scotland. These are high horse head sculptures, standing next to a new extension to the Forth and Clyde Canal, and near River Carron, in The Helix, a new parkland project built to connect 16 communities in the Falkirk Council Area. The sculptures were designed by sculptor Andy Scott. The kelpie is a supernatural water horse from Celtic folklore that is believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland and Ireland. These Kelpies represent the lineage of the heavy horse of Scottish industry and economy, pulling the wagons, ploughs, barges and coalships that shaped the geographical layout of the Falkirk area.

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Old Photograph Fire Station Achiltibuie Scotland

Old photograph of the Fire Station in Achiltibuie near Ullapool, Scotland. Achiltibuie is a long linear village in Ross and Cromarty, Highlands, on the Coigach coast of northwestern Scotland, overlooking Badentarbet Bay to the west. Loch Broom and the Summer Isles lie to the south. Located 10 miles north west of Ullapool as the crow flies. Achiltibuie is the central community of a series of townships and communities stretching from Culnacraig, through Badenscallie and Polglass, where the community hall, the primary school and the Piping School are located, Polbain, and Reiff to Achnahaird.



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Old Photograph Kilarow Parish Church Bowmore Islay Scotland

Old photograph of Kilarow Parish Church in Bowmore, Islay, Scotland. This 18th century church, known as The Round Church, was built by Daniel Campbell of Shawfield and Islay in 1767 at a cost of £1000. Bowmore is a planned village for those of the village of Kilarrow who were not directly involved in the work of Islay Estate, mainly agricultural workers and weavers. The unusual design of the church makes it the only complete circular church in Scotland. Islay is the fifth largest Scottish island and the seventh-largest island surrounding Great Britain.





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