Places to see in ( Tain - UK )
Places to see in ( Tain - UK )
Tain is a royal burgh and parish in the County of Ross, in the Highlands of Scotland. The name derives from the nearby River Tain, the name of which comes from an Indo-European root meaning 'flow'. The Gaelic name, Baile Dubhthaich, means 'Duthac's town', after a local saint also known as Duthus.
Tain railway station is on the Far North Line. The station is unmanned; in its heyday it had 30 staff. The station was opened by the Highland Railway on 1 January 1864. From 1 January 1923, the station was owned by the London Midland and Scottish Railway. Then in 1949 the British railways were nationalised as British Railways. When the railways were privatised the station became part of ScotRail.
Notable buildings in the town include Tain Tolbooth and St Duthus Collegiate Church. The town also has a local history museum, Tain Through Time, and the Glenmorangie distillery. Tain has two primary schools -Craighill (pupils - 274, April 2011) and Knockbreck (pupils - just under 120, April 2011) - and a secondary school called Tain Royal Academy with 500 pupils in summer 2014.
Tain was granted its first royal charter in 1066, making it Scotland's oldest Royal Burgh, commemorated in 1966 with the opening of the Rose Garden by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. The 1066 charter, granted by King Malcolm III, confirmed Tain as a sanctuary, where people could claim the protection of the church, and an immunity, in which resident merchants and traders were exempt from certain taxes. These led to the development of the town.
Little is known of earlier history although the town owed much of its importance to Duthac. He was an early Christian figure, perhaps 8th or 9th century, whose shrine had become so important by 1066 that it resulted in the royal charter. The ruined chapel near the mouth of the river was said to have been built on the site of his birth. Duthac became an official saint in 1419 and by the late Middle Ages his shrine was an important places of pilgrimage in Scotland. King James IV came at least once a year throughout his reign to achieve both spiritual and political aims.
A leading landowning family of the area, the Clan Munro, provided political and religious figures to the town, including the dissenter Rev John Munro of Tain (died ca. 1630). The early Duthac Chapel was the center of a sanctuary. Fugitives were by tradition given sanctuary in several square miles marked by boundary stones. During the First War of Scottish Independence, Robert the Bruce sent his wife and daughter to the sanctuary for safety. The sanctuary was violated and they were captured by forces loyal to William II, Earl of Ross who handed them over to Edward I of England The women were taken to England and kept prisoner for several years.
Tain was a parliamentary burgh, combined with Dingwall, Dornoch, Kirkwall and Wick in the Northern Burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918. Cromarty was added to the list in 1832.
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Places to see in ( Plockton - UK )
Places to see in ( Plockton - UK )
Plockton is a village in the Highlands of Scotland in the county of Ross and Cromarty with a population of 378. Plockton is a settlement on the shores of Loch Carron. It faces east, away from the prevailing winds, which together with the North Atlantic Drift gives it a mild climate allowing the Cordyline australis palm or cabbage tree to prosper.
Most of the houses date from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It was a planned community based on fishing in an attempt to stem the tide of emigration from the Highlands. The Church of Scotland in the village (also used by the Free Church of Scotland) was designed by Thomas Telford.
The village is a tourist resort. The television series Hamish Macbeth, starring Robert Carlyle, was filmed there, substituting for the fictional Lochdubh. Plockton was also used for various scenes in the film The Wicker Man and the Inspector Alleyn Mysteries television series.
The village has a small general store with a café; a takeaway; a restaurant; newsagent and craft shop; three hotels with pubs; numerous B&Bs; library with free internet access and a village hall, which holds community events and art exhibitions. It is served by Plockton railway station, on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line and the short Plockton Airfield for light aircraft and microlights.
Nearby is Duncraig Castle, a nineteenth-century stately home built by the Matheson family, who made their money in the opium trade. The castle was derelict for many years, having previously been used as an hospital, catering college, and a base for film crews. It was once owned by the extended Dobson family who were in the process of renovating it and this was shown in the BBC documentary titled The Dobsons of Duncraig. The castle was sold in 2009 to Suzanne Hazeldine. Plockton has been a popular location for many artists including those from The Edinburgh School (Adam Bruce Thomson, David Macbeth Sutherland) and continues to attract artists.
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Magical Scotland: Harry Potter Edinburgh, The Potter Trail, Potions Bar & Highlands Tour
My visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. See the real life Hogwarts and Diagon Alley, and visit Tom Riddle’s grave with the Potter Trail. Create your own potions drinks at the Department of Magic, and try a harry potter themed escape room. Last but not least, take a tour of the Scottish Highlands to see the locations used in the Harry Potter films.
The Potter Trail
Edinburgh Castle
Copper Blossom
Department of Magic (Potions Bar & Escape Room)
Rabbies Tours
Old Photographs Rosemarkie Black Isle Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Rosemarkie, Scottish Gaelic: Ros Mhaircnidh, a village on the south coast of the Black Isle peninsula in Ross and Cromarty. Rosemarkie fronts on a wide, picturesque bay, with views of Fort George and the Moray coastline across the Moray Firth. Rosemarkie has one of the finest beaches on the Moray Firth Coast Line. At the southern end of the beach is Chanonry Point, reputed to be the best location on the United Kingdom mainland from which to see dolphins.
Avro Vulcan Bomber found in carpark, XM573 Day 8 vlog 26
Here's Day 8 of our trip to America which we covered nearly 2,500 miles.
These are the latter days of our trip to the USA when earlier we went to find what is left of the scene locations from the movie Twister, recorded over 22 years ago!
In this video, we find Vulcan Bomber XM573 looking abandoned and unloved in a back carpark at the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum in Nebraska and we also try to enjoy an ice cold pool at our first semi decent hotel during our trip.
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Best Western Palace Hotel Inverness
Best Western Palace Hotel Inverness
Find your ideal hotel from the wide selection of hotels Inverness has to offer.
Best Western Palace Hotel Inverness
The city of Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland is popular with tourists and business visitors alike. Inverness offers access north, south, east and west for visitors to the Highlands and is an ideal hub from which to explore the north of Scotland.
This popularity means that the apartments Inverness plays host to have been able to invest heavily in the quality of service and product visitors to the area can expect.
Which means you, as a visitor to the area, can expect high standards of presentation no matter where you choose to stay.
Major hotel brands are increasingly looking to establish themselves with new properties in the Inverness area, such is the popularity of the city.
So when you’re looking through the hotels Inverness has to offer, you’ll find lots on offer, run by privately owned local businesses.
The local area has much to recommend it. Tourism businesses are keen to show you the best the Highlands of Scotland has to offer you in terms of wildlife and natural history. Local restaurants vie to bring you the best flavours, textures and experiences from the fields, shores and waters of the Highlands. Then there’s the history of the city. From escorted walking tours through the points of local historical interest through to days out by car, minibus or boat to explore the sights for yourself. There are also museums dedicated to the Loch Ness Monster, the Battle of Culloden and the proud history of the military regiments raised in this part of Scotland at Fort George.
Travel southeast to sample the delights of Aviemore and Speyside. Where in the winter we hope you’ll find plenty of snow and throughout they year you can take time to visit a distillery or two.
In the Moray Firth itself you can find dolphins and seals. For keen fishermen there are good rivers for fly fishing and fine waters for beach casting or sea fishing.
Golfers can look forward to playing at Castle Stuart, which has regularly hosted the Scottish Open. Or other courses such as Nairn (a venue for the Walker Cup), Lossiemouth or Royal Dornoch.
The North Coast 500 is a new touring route designed to help visitors to the Highlands explore the true depth and majesty of the coast and mountain scenery in the north by car or motorcycle. Taking you as far north as you can go on the British mainland without getting your feet wet, before treating you to the magnificently rugged scenery of the northwest coast.
So you can see that staying at the Best Western Palace Hotel Inverness offers you access to so much more. Whether you’re looking for a culinary treat, a romantic experience, some time to yourself or experiences you’ve never had before. Even if you do nothing more than lounge in the hotel leisure club all day and relax by the pool.
Stay in the Best Western Palace Hotel Inverness.
Best Western Palace Hotel Inverness
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Gruinard was the site of a biological warfare test by British military scientists from Porton Down in 1942, during the Second World War.[9] At that time there was an investigation by the British government into the feasibility of an attack using anthrax: to test the vulnerability of Britain against a German attack and the viability of attacking Germany with a British bio-weapon.[10] Given the nature of the weapon which was being developed, it was recognised that tests would cause widespread and long-lasting contamination of the immediate area by anthrax spores. In order to limit contamination a remote and uninhabited island was required. Gruinard was surveyed, deemed suitable and requisitioned from its owners by the British Government.[11]
The anthrax strain chosen for the Gruinard bioweapons trials was a highly virulent type called Vollum 14578, named after R. L. Vollum, Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Oxford, who supplied it.[12] Eighty sheep were taken to the island and bombs filled with anthrax spores were exploded close to where selected groups were tethered. The sheep became infected with anthrax and began to die within days of exposure.[9] Some of the experiments were recorded on 16 mm colour movie film, which was declassified in 1997. One sequence shows the detonation of an anthrax bomb fixed at the end of a tall pole supported with guy ropes. When the bomb is detonated a brownish aerosol cloud drifts away towards the target animals. A later sequence shows anthrax-infected sheep carcasses being burned in incinerators following the conclusion of the experiment.[13]
Scientists concluded after the tests were completed that a large release of anthrax spores would thoroughly pollute German cities, rendering them uninhabitable for decades afterwards.[9] These conclusions were supported by the discovery that initial efforts to decontaminate the island after the biological warfare trials had ended failed due to the high durability of anthrax spores.
In 1945 when the owner sought the return of Gruinard Island, the Ministry of Supply recognized that the island was contaminated as a result of the wartime experiments and consequently it could not be derequisitioned until it was deemed safe. In 1946, the Crown agreed to acquire the island and to take on the onus of responsibility. The owner or her heirs and beneficiaries would be able to repurchase the island for the sale price of £500 when it was declared Fit for habitation by man and beast.
For many years it was judged too hazardous and expensive to decontaminate the island sufficiently to allow public access. Gruinard Island was quarantined indefinitely as a result. Visits to the island were prohibited, except periodic checks by Porton Down personnel to determine the level of contamination
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Plockton & Loch Carron - Highlands - Scotland
This beautiful wee fishing village profits from the Gulf stream hence the Palm Trees. If you have never visited Plockton then I would recommend it as it is spectacular. Plockton which is on the banks of Loch Carron can be found just 5 miles north of Kyle of Lochalsh.