Places to see in ( Alyth - UK )
Places to see in ( Alyth - UK )
Alyth is a town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, situated under the Hill of Alyth five miles northeast of Blairgowrie. In 2001 the town had a population of 2,963. The settlement of New Alyth lies on the A926 road southwest of the main village. Alyth has a primary school that has around 497 pupils. Alyth High School catered for pupils up to fourth year until it was closed in 1994, when all pupils were moved to Blairgowrie High School or Webster's High School situated in nearby Kirriemuir.
Alyth is located on a burn which bears its name and owes its position to a confluence of drovers' roads used by hill farmers to bring their sheep and cattle down to market. A picturesque 17th century packhorse bridge is among a number of stone bridges crossing the burn in the town. The ruins of the old church, known locally as The Arches, stand in a graveyard in a prominent position at the top of the town. The current church building, completed in 1839 to the design of Edinburgh architect, Thomas Hamilton, dominates the skyline of the town.
It is Gothic in style, with Romanesque influences, especially in the windows, and has an unusually high spire. Inside the church is the funerary hatchment of Sir George Ramsay (sixth baronet of Bamff) who was killed in a duel at Musselburgh, in April 1790 - one of the last duelling deaths in Scotland. In the church porch is preserved a late 7th-early 8th century Pictish cross-slab, with a decorated cross on one face and a single Pictish symbol ('double disc and Z-rod') on the other. It was discovered in Alyth in 1887 when ground was being levelled in front of the manse.
To the northeast of the town a hill fort, possibly of Pictish date, stands atop Barry (or 'barrow') Hill. The remains consist of massive collapsed stone ramparts that take advantage of the topography of the Alyth Hill. Local legend connects the fort with King Arthur, and it is claimed that Guinevere, Arthur's queen, was imprisoned here for a very short time.
Another nearby early medieval feature is a Pictish 'Class I' symbol stone in a field on Bruceton Farm somewhat to the east of Alyth. This slab is one of relatively few likely still to be in its original position. It may have marked an ancient burial.
There may have been a Christian presence in this area from early times, since the medieval parish church was dedicated to St. Moluag of Lismore (d. 592), a contemporary of St. Columba. The cross-slab mentioned above also suggests this. Alyth was granted a Charter by James III in 1488, raising Alyth to the rank of Burgh of Barony with the right to hold markets and fairs.
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Summer Drive To The Village Of Glamis Angus Scotland
Tour Scotland video of a Summer to the village of Glamis on ancestry visit to Angus. In the tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare Macbeth is the Thane of Glamis and later the Thane of Cawdor, From the south, the A94 begins at a traffic light Y-junction with the A93 in east Perth, and heads north east, through New Scone, say Scoon, leaving this commuter town on a wide three-lane stretch. The A94 is relatively fast and wide past Perth airport and passes through Balbeggie, where the B953 heads back past Dunsinane Castle through the Sidlaw Hills, to join the main Aberdeen road, the A90, at Inchture.
Almondbank, Perthshire, walk.
Mostly filmed at the walk at Cromwell store, Almondbank. The beginning and end was filmed at the beginning of the main road into Almondbank.
Autumn Drive Through Dundee And Onwards To Newtyle Scotland
Tour Scotland Autumn video of a road trip drive through the city of Dundee and then North on the B954 road through Auchterhouse after which the road climbs into the Sidlaw Hills where the road finds a pass to go through so the gradient is not steep, although the road is rather winding in places. Eventually the road descends into Newtyle in the west of Angus, where it runs along the main Dundee Road. The original village of Newtyle was centred on the church and what are now Kirkton Road and Smiddy road.
Driving To The Village Of Glamis Angus Scotland
Tour Scotland video of driving to the village of on ancestry visit to Angus. In the tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare Macbeth is the Thane of Glamis and later the Thane of Cawdor.
Rural Drive Perthshire Scotland June 19th
Tour Scotland June video of a drive in rural Perthshire.
Ancient grave stones at Landour cemetery
Ancient grave stones of the dead at the cemetery in Landour, Uttarakhand, India.
Landour a small cantonment town contiguous with Mussoorie, is about 35 km (22 mi) from the city of Dehradun in the northern state of Uttarakhand in India. The twin towns of Mussoorie and Landour, together, are a well-known British Raj-era hill station in northern India. Mussoorie-Landour was widely known as the Queen of the Hills. The name Landour is drawn from Llanddowror, a village in Carmarthenshire in southwest Wales. During the Raj, it was common to give nostalgic English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish names to one's home (or even to British-founded towns), reflecting one's ethnicity. Names drawn from literary works were also common, as from those by Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson and many others.
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Inverquiech Castle Ruin, Strange places in Scotland
A quick wheech at Inverquiech as SPiS search for the ruin of this Lindsay stronghold. Eventually they find it thanks to the couple whose land it is on. A quick tour and some history from kate Everett follow. Not much footage but a great visit.