Old Travel Blog Photograph Royal Dornoch Golf Club Clubhouse Dornoch Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the clubhouse at Royal Dornoch by Dornoch, Sutherland, Scotland. Golf was played in Dornoch, over the extensive links there, in the early seventeenth century, circa 1616. Expenses covering the cost of a young aristocrat's golf clubs in 1616 have provided the earliest evidence so far of the sport's presence in Dornoch. John, the 13th Earl of Sutherland, was sent to the town in Sutherland to be educated. The current golf club was established in 1877, and was awarded its royal status in 1906 By King Edward VII. The design of the Championship Course is attributed to Old Tom Morris from St Andrews, Fife.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Of The Bridge And Ditch Fort George Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Bridge and Ditch at Fort George, a large 18th century fortress near Ardersier, to the North East of Inverness, Scotland. The first Fort George was built in 1727 in Inverness; it was a large fortress capable of housing 400 troops on a hill beside the River Ness, on the site of, and incorporating portions of, the medieval castle which had been rebuilt as a citadel by Oliver Cromwell but later abandoned. The first commanding officer of the original Fort George was Sir Robert Munro, 6th Baronet, Colonel of the 42nd Royal Highlanders Black Watch and chief of the Highland Clan Munro. This new fort was built to pacify the Scottish Highlands in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745, replacing the earlier Fort George built with the same aim after the 1715 Jacobite rising. The fortress has never been attacked and has remained in continuous use as a garrison.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Cliffs At Kincraig Earlsferry East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the cliffs at Kincraig Point on the coastal walking path by Elie and Earlsferry, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. According to legend and tradition, MacDuff concealed himself in the cave at Kincraig which bears his name. A substantial wall built across the recess of the cave is pointed out as having been built to shelter MacDuff. The Clan Duff claims descent from the original Royal Scoto Pictish line of which Queen Gruoch of Scotland, wife of Macbeth, King of Scotland was the senior representative. After the death of MacBeth, King Malcolm III of Scotland seized the Crown and his son, Aedh, married the daughter of Queen Gruoch. Aedh was created Earl of Fife and abbot of Abernethy. The early chiefs of Clan MacDuff were the Earls of Fife.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph St Martin's Cross Iona Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of St Martin's Cross by the Abbey on the Isle of Iona in the Inner Hebrides off the West coast of Scotland. Iona Abbey, now an ecumenical church, is of particular historical and religious interest to pilgrims and visitors alike. It is the most elaborate and best-preserved ecclesiastical building surviving from the Middle Ages in the Western Isles. In front of the Abbey stands the 9th century St Martin's Cross, one of the best preserved Celtic crosses in the British Isles.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph St John's Cross Iona Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of St John's Cross by the Abbey on the Isle of Iona in the Inner Hebrides off the West coast of Scotland. Iona Abbey, now an ecumenical church, is of particular historical and religious interest to pilgrims and visitors alike. It is the most elaborate and best-preserved ecclesiastical building surviving from the Middle Ages in the Western Isles. In front of the Abbey stands the 9th century St Martin's Cross, one of the best preserved Celtic crosses in the British Isles, and a replica of the 8th century St John's Cross.



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