James Boswell was a Scottish lawyer, a diarist, and an author. He was also a man whose dissolute lifestyle led to a premature death from the effects of venereal disease and alcohol, yet whose two ...

At Bracadale, on the west coast of the Isle of Skye, the main road north to Dunvegan skirts around the head of Loch Beag before climbing a hillside that gives increasingly good views west over Loch ...

The Island of Benbecula lies between North Uist and South Uist and its airport serves both, as well as Benbecula itself. The airport is located on a spit of machair, grassy dune land, at the ...

Measuring some three miles from north to south and a mile and a half from east to west, Fair Isle is Scotland's most remote inhabited island. It lies some 25 miles south-west of the southern tip of ...

The road across the north end of the Trotternish Peninsula emerges on its west coast at the small settlement of Duntulm. Beyond the settlement a rocky promontory is the location of the fragmentary ...

Saint Mary's Parish Church stands at the south-west corner of Lindisfarne village on the tidal Holy Island of Lindisfarne. In some ways the church is dominated by the ruins, immediately to its east, ...

For nearly five centuries, Spynie Palace was the fortified residence of the Bishops of Moray, standing some two miles north of Elgin on the edge of Spynie Loch, a sea loch providing direct access and ...

John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, lived from 12 September 1847 to 9 October 1900. He is remembered as a scholar, historian, archaeologist, romantic, mystic, and one of the greatest patrons ...

A "haa" was a laird's house, and a number were built across Shetland from the 1600s onwards. They tend to be characterised by a sense of solidity and permanence, and the Haa of Tangwick is no ...

Crossraguel Abbey is one of the best preserved, most varied and most interesting of the many abbey ruins that are dotted across Scotland. It can be found just to the south of the A77, about two miles ...

As you pass along the A858 in Western Lewis near the township of Shawbost (Siabost) watch out for a brown tourist sign pointing west towards a Norse Mill. From the small car park, a well made path ...