City break in Carlisle
Enjoy a break taking in the sights and sounds of Carlisle with it's abundant history and vibrant food and drink scene.
Abandoned Creamery Kirkcudbright HD - Urbex Derelict Explore Abandoned Scotland
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The Kirkcudbright creamery was opened on Friday October 21st 1921 and it closed in January 2010 with a major fire occurring in December 2011. It was owned latterly by Milk Link and cost 121 jobs with the average service being between 18 - 25 years at the creamery. It has recently been earmarked for demolition, with part of the site being used for housing. Opposition had been fierce against the plans by those who felt the site should be protected for industry but ultimately the housing plans went through.
Music is by Amman / Josh - Ouachita
Recored with a Canon 600d.
Edited with Adobe Premiere CS5.
Colour Graded with Magic Bullet Looks.
Exploring Scotland by drone (Dumfries and Galloway)
A collection of videos from my holiday in Scotland around Dumfries and Galloway. Footage captured using the Bebop 1 drone. Including Garlieston village, Cruggleton Castle, Mull of Galloway, Caerlaverock Castle
Music: Sky Kingdom - Trevor DeMaere
Dumfries
Dumfries (Listeni/dʌmˈfriːs/ dum-freess; possibly from Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Phris) is a market town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland. It is near the mouth of the River Nith into the Solway Firth. Dumfries was a civil parish and became the county town of the former county of Dumfriesshire.[2] Dumfries is nicknamed Queen of the South.[3] People from Dumfries are known colloquially as Doonhamers.
There are at least two theories on the etymology of the name. One is that the name Dumfries originates from the Scottish Gaelic name Dún Phris which means Fort of the Thicket. According to another theory, the name is a corruption of two words which mean the Friars’ Hill; those who favour this idea allege the formation of a religious house near the head of what is now the Friars’ Vennel
No positive information has been obtained of the era and circumstances in which the town of Dumfries was founded.[4]
Some writers hold that Dumfries flourished as a place of distinction during the Roman occupation of North Great Britain. The Selgovae inhabited Nithsdale at the time and may have raised some military works of a defensive nature on or near the site of Dumfries; and it is more than probable that a castle of some kind formed the nucleus of the town. This is inferred from the etymology of the name, which, according to one theory, is resolvable into two Gaelic terms signifying a castle or fort in the copse or brushwood. Dumfries was once within the borders of the Kingdom of Northumbria. The district around Dumfries was for several centuries ruled over and deemed of much importance by the invading Romans. Many traces of Roman presence in Dumfriesshire are still to be found; coins, weapons, sepulchral remains, military earthworks, and roads being among the relics left by their lengthened sojourn in this part of Scotland. The apostle Paul claimed rank and privilege as a Roman citizen on account of his birth at Tarsus; the Caledonian tribes in the south of Scotland were invested with the same rights by an edict of Antoninus Pius. The Romanized natives received freedom (the burrows, cairns, and remains of stone temples still to be seen in the district tell of a time when Druidism was the prevailing religion) as well as civilisation from their conquerors. Late in the fourth century, the Romans bade farewell to the country.[4]
According to another theory, the name is a corruption of two words which mean the Friars’ Hill; those who favour this idea allege that St. Ninian, by planting a religious house near the head of what is now the Friars’ Vennel, at the close of the fourth century, became the virtual founder of the Burgh; however Ninian, so far as is known, did not originate any monastic establishments anywhere and was simply a missionary. In the list of British towns given by the ancient historian Nennius, the name Caer Peris occurs, which some modern antiquarians suppose to have been transmuted, by a change of dialect, into Dumfries.[4]
Trip to Carlisle Castle
1st day of my trip to North England and the borders. I decided to go to Carlisle Castle i had a great tin even though the weather was against me.
Standing proud in the city it has dominated for nine centuries, Carlisle Castle remained a working fortress until well within living memory. It has withstood many sieges, held captive a royal prisoner, and been home to the King's Own Royal Border Regiment.
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SALISBURY, England | Visiting Mrs. Jenkins at Mompesson House
Part of the 1995 Sense and Sensibility was filmed at this lovely old house in Salisbury!
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Moffat,Scotland,September 11, 2014
The town of Moffat in the Scottish border region.Winner of Scotland in bloom and Britain in Bloom.
Orroland Holiday Cottages in SW Scotland
A holiday at Orroland is good for the soul. Two peaceful and private cottages and a large holiday home set apart from each other with a wildflower meadow, landscaped loch, follies and interesting rocky shoreline to explore. Book online at orroland.com.
Abbotsway Cottage (sleeps 2-7) | Cutlar's Lodge (sleeps 2-6) | Orroland Lodge sleeps 14.
Orroland estate, Kirkcudbright, South West Scotland.
Oban Trip
Road trip from Loch Lomond to Oban