Rogart Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
网页In Strath Fleet a mile north-east of Rogart Station is the site of the Battle of Torran Dubh. Here, in 1517, the Murray, Ross and Gunn clans fought with the Mackays, Mathesons and Polsons. The story goes that the Murray and Ross clans were being beaten until the Gunn clan arrived, whereupon the Mackays and Mathesons departed at speed, leaving ...
Lochranza Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
网页Lochranza. Lochranza Seen from the North-East Side of Loch Ranza. Perhaps the most scenically attractive of Arran's villages, Lochranza is located on the loch, Loch Ranza, from which it takes its name. Surrounded on three sides by hills and facing the imposing grey ruin of its castle placed dramatically on a shingle spit sticking into the Loch ...
Archiestown Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
网页Archiestown. The land rising on the north side of the Spey valley was open and bleak in the 1700s, marked only by the Ballintomb Burn flowing towards the Spey with the Moor of Ballintomb to its east. In 1760 Sir Archibald Grant of Monymusk laid out a weaving village on the open hillside here. This comprised a single main street running east ...
Pennan Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
网页In August 2007 Pennan was in the news when a mudslide from the cliffs behind damaged parts of the west end of the village, including the village hall. Then, at the end of 2009, a landslide temporarily blocked a footpath at the eastern end of the village. Pennan was well known in the nineteenth century for the millstones that were quarried to ...
Portree Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
网页Portree is the main town on Skye. Its name comes from the Gaelic Port-an-Righ, which translates as "King's Port" and dates to a visit by King James V, plus a fleet of warships, in 1540, to persuade the island clans to support him. It had earlier been known as Kiltraglen. The main street running parallel to the back of the harbour is Bank Street.
Brae Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
网页Brae. Brae is a relatively recent settlement lying at the northern end of Busta Voe. Four hundred yards to the north is the southern end of Sullom Voe. The first settlement in the area lay on the west side of Busta Voe. In 1588 Busta House was built in its imposing hillside location. It was originally just two storeys in height, but in 1714 ...
Suilven Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
网页Let's all be glad that tastes differ, but for us the best mountain in Scotland has to be Suilven. A "mere" 2,389ft high with a name said to come from the Norse "Pillar Mountain": which shows, not surprisingly, that the Vikings saw its seaward profile first. When viewed from Lochinver, Suilven looks magnificent and impossible: a policeman's ...
Gilsland Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
网页The Barony of Gilsland covered a wide area of eastern Cumbria and is believed to have taken its name from the family first granted control of it. There were a number of small settlements in what is now the village of Gilsland when the Newcastle to Carlisle railway arrived in 1838. The station was named "Rose Hill", after the nearest hamlet ...
Aberlour Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
网页Aberlour, or Charlestown of Aberlour, is a large, attractive village that lies along the south-east bank of the River Spey and astride the main A95 from Aviemore to Keith and beyond.. The origins of the village lie at the west end of today's settlement, on the opposite side of the main road from the Aberlour Distillery. Here the Burn of Aberlour flows into the River Spey.
Loch Etive Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
网页Loch Etive meets the Firth of Lorn and the open sea at Connel. From here it stretches east past Ardchattan Priory and Ardchattan Priory Garden on the north shore and Taynuilt on the south, before dog-legging north-east, ending after a journey of 17 miles from the sea at a ruined pier. Its northern end and the pier are accessible by car via a 14 ...
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