Tour Scotland Travel Video Tour Guest Meeting Sheep Dogs Glen Quaich Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of a tour guest meeting sheep dogs in Glen Quaich on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip Shian Farm in Highland Perthshire. A sheep dog or sheepdog is generally a dog or breed of dogs historically used in connection with the raising of sheep. These may include livestock guardian or pastoral dogs used to guard sheep and other livestock in farms for farmers, and herding dogs used to herd sheep and other livestock.

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Tour Scotland Travel Video Spring River Braan Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Spring travel video of the River Braan on ancestry visit to Highland, Perthshire, Scotland. The River Braan, Scottish Gaelic: Breamhainn, is a tributary of the River Tay in Scotland. Within the county of Perth and Kinross, it flows 11 miles eastwards from Loch Freuchie, near Amulree, and joins the River Tay near Dunkeld.

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Tour Scotland Travel Video Spring Drive East On A822 Over The A9 To The Square In Dunkeld Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Spring travel video of a road trip drive East on the A822 road and over the A9 on ancestry visit to the Square in Dunkeld, Highland, Perthshire, Scotland. You have to be very careful when crossing the A9 as it is a very busy, and fast road, at times. Entering Dunkeld we cross the bridge built by Thomas Telford in 1809. At the time, it was the only bridge across the Tay between Perth and Aberfeldy, a distance of 35 miles. It was constructed as part of his new route north to Inverness in the Highlands, replacing the earlier Military Road. This route was much later to become the A9. The old market cross in the square has been carefully preserved as have many of the houses, some of which date back to the 17th century. After the Battle of Killiecrankie, a fierce battle raged in these streets on 21 August 1689 between the Jacobites and government soldiers. Many of the buildings were burned or destroyed, and much of the Dunkeld was rebuilt in the 18th century.

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Tour Scotland Travel Video Spring Drive On Old Military Road To Rumbling Bridge Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of a Spring road trip drive on an old narrow military road to Rumbling Bridge 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. Pre Raphaelite artist Sir John Everett Millais, based himself at a cottage near Rumbling Bridge.

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Tour Scotland Travel Video Spring Drive On A822 Road To Trochry Perthshire

Tour Scotland Spring travel video of a road trip drive East on the A822 road on ancestry visit to Trochry, Highland, Perthshire, Scotland. William McLiesh was born in Meikle Trochrie around 1682. He was married to Margaret McFarland, with whom he had three children. One of these children was John Mcleish. After the death of her husband in 1740, Margaret McFarland married Andrew Young. She died in 1771 aged 62 and is buried with her first husband in Little Dunkeld Churchyard. Alexander Cameron and Betty McGrigor lived at Trochrie and had two children, twins born in the beginnning of December 1803, and baptized and named Jannet and Anne Cameron. In Trochry there are the remains of a circular tower part of a Z-plan castle of the Gowrie family, which was burned in 1545. Beatrix Potter's love of nature and storytelling was inspired by decades of childhood holidays in the area. Kitty, the inspiration for Mrs Tiggy Winkle was brought up within a field of Trochry.

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