Newark Castle By St Monans In The East Neuk of Fife Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of Newark Castle by St Monans on ancestry visit to the East Neuk of Fife. This Scottish castle dates back to the 13th century at which time King Alexander III, born 1241, died 1286, spent some of his childhood here. The ruins currently visible are the remains of buildings constructed under the ownership of David Leslie in the 17th century and the Sandilands family who owned the castle since the 15th century when they gained the estate through marriage. Leslie was a prominent figure in the English and Scottish Civil Wars, becoming Lord Newark after the wars.
Newark castle Dovecote fife
In some cultures, particularly Medieval Europe, the possession of a dovecote was a symbol of status and power and was consequently regulated by law. Only nobles had this special privilege known as droit de colombier. Many ancient manors in France and the United Kingdom have a dovecote (still standing or in ruins) in one section of the manorial enclosure or in nearby fields. Examples include Château de Kerjean in Brittany, France, Houchin, France, Bodysgallen Hall in Wales, and Muchalls Castle and Newark Castle in Scotland.
The oldest dovecotes are thought to have been the fortified dovecotes of Upper Egypt, and the domed dovecotes of Iran. In dry regions, the droppings were prized by farmers and were thus collected for fertilizing their arid fields.
Clan Leslie Castle Coast Of East Neuk Of Fife Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of Newark Castle, a Clan Leslie castle, now in ruins located just west of St Monans, on ancestry visit to the coast of the East Neuk of Fife. The building stands in a dramatic location, overlooking the North Sea. The upper storeys are ruinous, but vaulted cellars survive, hidden from view. Building on the site probably dates back to the 13th century at which time the Scottish king Alexander III, born 1241, died 1286) spent some of his childhood here. The current building was begun in the 15th century by the Kinloch family. It then passed, through marriage, to the Sandilands of Cruivie, who sold it in 1649 to David Leslie. Leslie was a prominent figure in the English and Scottish Civil Wars, becoming Lord Newark after the wars. Following Leslie's death in 1682 the castle passed to the Anstruther family, and finally to the Bairds of Elie. The castle attracted the attention of Sir William Burrell, the Glasgow shipping magnate and collector of art and antiques, in the late 19th Century when Sir Robert Lorimer produced a plan for its restoration. The scheme never went ahead as the owner of the site, a Mr Baird of Elie, refused to sell.The castle has been known by several names, including Inverie, St Monans and St Monance, the latter being a mediaeval form of the possessive St Monan's.
Ghosts 2015: Newark Castle in Fife
Newark Castle is the ruin which is located just outside the town of St Monans, on the east coast of Fife.
We know of paranormal activity at the nearby church, but, do we have any activity at this rather quiet overlooked location? Does the spirit of King Alexander still visit, or how about David Leslie.
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Newark Castle Port Glasgow Scotland
Taking my phantom3 a buzz round Newark castle then over the river Clyde
Newark Castle is a well-preserved castle sited on the south shore of the estuary of the River Clyde in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, Scotland, where the firth gradually narrows from the Firth of Clyde and navigation upriver is made difficult by shifting sandbanks.
Ghostly figure photographed at Newark Castle
A visitor to the ruins of a Scottish castle managed to capture the image of a mysterious figure.
Paranormal enthusiast Lenny Low had been visiting the ruins of Newark Castle with his partner Ruth Sinclair-Case when he spotted something unusual in one of his photographs.
The unexplained extra can be seen facing away from the camera on the far right of the image.
One of the most interesting things about the photo is that the doorway that the figure appears to be entering, which is now fenced off, was once the castle's storeroom with the kitchen being next door.
It looks like a woman with her sleeves rolled up in a busy like manner, said Low. Being 100 yards from the sea its more likely to be a fisherman’s wife - one who spent her time gutting the fish.
Newark Castle itself dates back to the 13th century and was rebuilt several times. The current ruins are what's left of what was constructed under the ownership of David Leslie in the 17th century and the Sandilands family who owned the estate during the 15th century.
These days the ruined stonework is considered to be one of Scotland's most haunted attractions.
Newark Castle ghost: Paranormal captures of fisherwoman
Newark Castle ghost: Paranormal captures of fisherwoman When looking at the photos one has a strange dark blemish in the right hand corner.Zoom in this character appears, walking into what would be the pantry storeroom of the castle. It looks like how the fisherwomen of old dressed.The doorway it’s walking into is fenced off but was the storeroom of the castle, the kitchen is next door on the left.It looks like a woman with her sleeves rolled up in a busy like manner.Being 100 yards from he sea its more likely to be a fisherman’s wife one who spent her time gutting salting the fish.The structure, a ruin located just outside St Monans,dates back to the 13th century.At the time,Scottish king Alexander spent ome of his childhood there.However since then site has passed through several rebuilding phases.It is most likely that the ruins currently visible are the remains of buildings constructed under the ownership of David Leslie in the 17th century and the Sandilands family who owned the castle since the 15th century when they gained he estate through marriage.Leslie was a prominent figure in the English and Scottish Civil Wars, becoming Lord Newark the wars.The castle has been known by several names,including Inverie,St Monans and St Monance. Mr Low’s St Monans book entitled The Weem Witch is due out next year.
A View from Above the Newark Castle in Nottinghamshire
A view from the top of the gatehouse at Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire UK on the Robin Hood Trail. Check out TheFairytaleTraveler.com for more exciting adventures with Robin Hood on Nottinghamshire's Robin Hood Trail.
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The final part of our Newark castleParanormal investigation, This is a great example of solid eveidence, in conditions where external noises would be very difficult to hear where we was situated. Dont forget to comment and like this final part.
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A Walk Around Newark Castle (RUINS)
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Scotland - St. Monans - DaneWithADrone
On the last day of our Scotland round trip we visited St. Monans. I wanted to photograph the iconic pier and see the small coastal town. Thanks to Gary Gough (#garygough) who show-cased this pier in a video about landscape photography ( I wanted to visit the place. Thanks Gary!
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Life and times of King John recreated at Newark Castle
Life and times of King John recreated at Newark Castle, by Regia Anglorum.
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ST MONANS WINDMILL
A few hundred yards east of the beautiful village of St Monans and standing above a raised beach close to the shore is St Monans Windmill. The East Neuk of Fife is a stunning area, and the villages strung out along its southern coast are sublime. Combine this setting with the traditional rural associations of a windmill and it is hard to imagine a more idyllic place. Nothing could be more misleading. St Monans Windmill is the most tangible reminder of an industry that for centuries blighted the environment of coastal communities right along both shores of the Firth of Forth: salt production.
Salt had been a valuable commodity through much of history, and the Roman's occasional use of it to pay their troops brought the word salary into being. Traditionally it was mined as rock salt, though later on, shoreside locations in sunny climes started to be used to evaporate sea water in shallow ponds to produce bay salt. By the late medieval period, in places where coal was produced in coastal locations, it became common for industrial salt to be produced. This was a process in which coal fires burned under metal pans full of seawater until the water had evaporated, leaving just the salt.
Coal has been mined for many centuries from both sides of the Firth of Forth, and salt pans were in use in Culross from as early as the 1500s. Before long there were few places along either bank of the River Forth where salt was not being extracted to serve the needs of industries like glass and pottery manufacture. Salt was also increasingly in demand as a food preservative, and especially as a fish preservative, allowing the growing catches of Scotland's fishing ports to be exported.
The legacy of salt extraction remains mostly in a series of placenames alongside the River Forth involving pan or pans. The most well known of these is Prestonpans, where industrial salt extraction continued until as recently as 1959. Most production alongside the Forth ceased after 1823, when changes in the tax regime meant rock salt from England became much cheaper.
Salt production at St Monans is due to Sir John Anstruther, who became the local laird in 1753. In 1771 he and his business partner, Robert Fall, established the Newark Coal and Salt Company. Coal was extracted from land immediately to the north of the windmill from a mine whose site is now occupied by Coal Farm. The salt pans were housed in nine buildings on the raised beach below the windmill, whose locations can still be seen today. The role of the windmill was to provide the power to pump sea water from tidally-fed reservoirs cut into the rocks offshore into the salt pans. Production went on round the clock and at the height of operations the salt pans employed 20 men, while the colliery serving it employed a further 36 men.
The salt pans were linked to the coal mine by a waggonway, which also connected both to Pittenweem harbour. Here major improvements were paid for by Sir John Anstruther, on condition that ships carrying his coal and salt had priority over other traffic. An indication of salt's value lies in the high levels of tax it attracted; the way it was stored in bonded buildings, like whisky today; and the way it was actively smuggled to avoid duties. Perhaps the most telling sign of its relative value was that it was deemed acceptable to burn eight tons of coal to produce one ton of salt.
An underground fire in 1794 badly disrupted the local production of coal, and it seems that from this time use of the waggonway to Pittenweem ceased. Coal continued to be produced to feed the salt pans into the early 1800s, but it seems that the entire operation had already ceased production by the time of the tax changes in 1823. The stump of St Monans Windmill survived, and has been restored and re-roofed since the end of the 1980s. You can also see where the salt pans would once have stood. Imagining the choking fumes and smoke that would once have permeated the whole area is, thankfully, more difficult against the beautiful backdrop of the East Neuk.