Old Travel Blog Photograph Road By Loch Eck Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the road by Loch Eck located North of Dunoon, Scotland. This is a freshwater loch located on the Cowal peninsula. It is seven miles long. Apart from Loch Lomond, it is the only naturally occurring habitat of the Powan fish. Loch Eck is within the Argyll Forest Park which, is itself part of the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. The loch is also an impounding reservoir with a concrete dam measuring 0.870 metres high. The dam was completed in 1973. Loch Eck now supplies the freshwater to much of the southeast of Cowal, including Dunoon.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Dunans Bridge Glendaruel Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Dunans Bridge in Glendaruel, Cowal, Argyll, Scotland. Dunans Bridge was designed by Thomas Telford. It is located by Dunans Castle. It was built for John Fletcher of Dunans, to commemorate the battle of Waterloo. The bridge was completed in 1815, and predates the 1864 elaboration of Dunans House by Kerr into a Franco Baronial " castle ". The three arched rubble construction is considered internationally important as it is the only extant bridge of this type. It stands over 49 feet from the river bed and has been voted one of Scotland's ten best bridges. It was built to replace the now destroyed " swing bridge ". Though it is of a kind often constructed by Telford, the three arches, gargoyles and eight hexagonal piers, as well as its sheer height of 52 feet, make it unique.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Hermiston Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of cottages in Hermiston, a hamlet formerly in the County of Midlothian and now part of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is north of the Heriot Watt University Riccarton Campus and west of the Hermiston Quay commercial development. Hermiston is bounded by the A71 Calder Road to the south and the Union Canal to the north with the M8 motorway just beyond. The hamlet forms the Hermiston Conservation Area.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Wilson Tweed Shop Killin Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Wilson Tweed Shop in Killin, Scotland. Killin is a village situated at the western head of Loch Tay in Stirling area, formerly Perthshire. Killin railway station was on the Killin Railway. The railway station was officially closed on 1 November 1965. The MacNab Clan were once dominant here, and have long been associated with Killin. Their ancient burial ground is on Inchbuie in the River Dochart, just below the falls, and is visible from the bridge in Killin. In 1767 the minister of Killin, James Stuart, published the first New Testament in Scottish Gaelic.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Trochry Perthshire Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Trochry, Perthshire, Scotland. The Stewarts of Grandtully held the Barony of Strathbraan from the early 17th century and Meikle Trochry was mentioned in the Act of Parliament establishing the Barony. There are a few remains of Trochry Castle located in a private garden, with no public access.



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