Places to see in ( Crieff - UK )
Places to see in ( Crieff - UK )
Crieff is a market town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Crieff lies on the A85 road between Perth and Crianlarich and also lies on the A822 between Greenloaning and Aberfeldy. The A822 joins onto the A823 which leads to Dunfermline.
Crieff has developed into a hub for tourism, trading mainly on its whisky and cattle droving history. Tourist attractions include the Caithness Glass Visitor Centre and Glenturret Distillery. Innerpeffray Library (established c. 1680), Scotland's oldest lending library, is also nearby. St. Mary's Chapel, adjacent to the library, dates from 1508. Both the library and chapel are open to the public: the library is run by a charitable trust, the chapel is in the care of Historic Scotland.
For a number of centuries Highlanders came south to Crieff to sell their black cattle whose meat and hides were avidly sought by the growing urban populations in Lowland Scotland and the north of England. The town acted as a gathering point or tryst for the Michaelmas cattle sale held each year and the surrounding fields and hillsides were black with the tens of thousands of cattle - some from as far away as Caithness and the Outer Hebrides (for comparison, in 1790 the population of Crieff was about 1,200 which led to a ratio of ten cows per person, similar to the sheep/human ratio in New Zealand).
During the October Tryst (as the cattle gathering was known), Crieff was the prototype 'wild west' town. Milling with the cattle were horse thieves, bandits and drunken drovers. The inevitable killings were punished on the Kind Gallows, for which Crieff became known throughout Europe.
In the nineteenth century Crieff became a fashionable destination for tourists visiting the Highlands and as a country retreat for wealthy businessmen from Edinburgh, Glasgow and beyond. Many such visitors attended the hydropathic establishment, Crieff Hypopathic Establishment there, now Crieff Hydro which opened in 1868, and remains in operation. Crieff still functions as a tourist centre, and the large villas stand as testaments to its use by wealthy city-dwellers. Crieff was once served by Crieff railway station. The station was opened in 1856 by the Crieff Junction Railway, but was closed in 1964 by British Railways as part of the Beeching Axe.
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April Drive Through Muthill On Visit To Crieff Perthshire Scotland
Tour Scotland April video of part of the drive North on the A822 road through Muthill on ancestry visit to Crieff, Perthshire
Road To The Famous Grouse Experience Glenturret Whisky Distillery Crieff Perthshire Scotland
Old Tour Scotland video of the road to Glenturret Whisky Distillery on visit to Crieff, Perthshire.
Old Photographs Of Dunning Perthshire Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Dunning, Perthshire. Dunning is situated at the south east of Strathearn. St Serf's church in the centre of the village was rebuilt in the 19th century but the tower is early medieval, 2th century, with two light arched Anglo-Saxon windows like Muthill Church. Like so many Strathearn villages, Dunning was burnt after the Battle of Sheriffmuir by the retreating Jacobite army. However the village retains it's earlier pattern with later buildings, 18th and 19th century, gathered around the church. A standing stone outside the village is said to mark the site of the Battle of Duncrub in 964AD. A local woman, Maggie Wall, was burnt as a witch in 1657 and a monument commemorates this sad event. The original thorn tree was a wild hawthorn from Dunning Den, planted in April 1716 to mark the burning of the village on a cold Saturday evening in January 1716 by the Jacobites, only a few months earlier. Duncrub House is by Dunnning. On 26 August 1511, William Rollo of Duncrub received a charter that erected his lands into a free barony. He is believed to have died at the Battle of Flodden in 1513, along with his eldest son Robert. The estates were inherited by Andrew Rollo who consolidated his position by marrying his cousin, Marion, who was heir to David Rollo of Manmure. One of Andrew's younger sons, Peter, became Bishop of Dunkeld and a judge of the Court of Session. His grandson was Sir Andrew Rollo who was knighted by James VI of Scotland. The Clan Rollo were supporters of the king during the civil war. Their loyalty was rewarded by Charles II of Scotland who created Sir Andrew as Lord Rollo of Duncrub in January 1651 at Perth. However Lord Rollo was fined £1,000 by Oliver Cromwell who was in control of Scotland in 1654. Lord Rollo's fifth son was Sir William Rollo who was a gifted soldier, and a lieutenant of the royalist army leader James Graham, 1st Marquis of Montrose. He commanded the left wing of the royal army at the Battle of Aberdeen in 1644. He also followed Montrose in his famous forced march across mountainous terrain which surprised the forces of Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquis of Argyll and led to Argyll's defeat at the Battle of Inverlochy in 1645. Rollo was later beheaded at Glasgow in October 1645 after being captured at the Battle of Philiphaugh where the royalists were defeated by the Covenanters. Despite the third Lord Rollo's support for the Prince of Orange, his son Robert Rollo, was a staunch Jacobite who attended the great hunt at Aboyne in August 1715, which was actually a secret council to plan the rising of that year. Robert Rollo fought at the Battle of Sheriffmuir and surrendered, along with the Marquess of Huntly, chief of Clan Gordon, to General Grant of the Clan Grant. He was imprisoned but later pardoned in 1717. Robert Rollo had seven children, and died peacefully at Duncrub in March 1758. Robert Rollo's eldest son, Andrew Rollo, 5th Lord Rollo was a professional soldier. During the War of the Austrian Succession he fought for the British at the Battle of Dettingen in 1743. In 1758 the fifth Lord Rollo commanded the British 22nd Regiment of Foot. During the Seven Years' War in the Americas, he fought under General Murray in the last campaign which secured Canada for the British. In 1759 he captured the French Caribbean island of Dominica even though it was heavily fortified. In 1760 he was raised to the rank of brigadier general. He fought for two more years in the Caribbean. During this time both Barbados and Martinique fell to the British. However, his health was severely affected by the climate, and he returned to England in 1762 and died at Leicester, England, in 1765. The seventh Lord Rollo fought with distinction at the siege of Pondicherry in India where he commanded a force of marines. John, eighth Lord Rollo, was an officer in the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards which is today the Scots Guards. The eighth Lord fought on the Continent between 1793 and 1795. The present Chief: David Eric Howard Rollo, The 14th Lord Rollo of Duncrub, Baron Dunning of Dunning and Pitcairns, Chief of the Name and Arms of Rollo
March Morning Drive To Dundee From Perth Scotland
Tour Scotland March morning video of a drive East on the A90 road from from Perth, Perthshire, to visit the city of Dundee in Tayside. This Scottish road originates in Edinburgh, it the travels west and over the Forth Road Bridge, before turning into the M90 motorway. At Perth, the M90 again becomes the A90, now running north east to Dundee and through the Kingsway road system. It then passes Forfar, Brechin, Stracathro, the site of an ancient Roman Camp, Stonehaven, Bridge of Muchalls, where the Burn of Muchalls flows under, near Muchalls Castle, near Saint Ternan's Church, Newtonhill, Portlethen, from there through the city of Aberdeen, crossing the Ythan Estuary, on to Peterhead on its way to Fraserburgh.
Parish Church Longforgan Carse Of Gowrie Perthshire Scotland
Tour Scotland video of the Parish Church on ancestry visit to Longforgan, Carse Of Gowrie, Perthshire. There has been a church on this site for at least 900 years. The tower is dated 1690 and has an eight sided steeple and unusual clock. The main building by John Paterson dates from 1795.
Drive From Marshall Place Perth To Scone Village Perthshire Scotland
Tour Scotland video of a drive from Marshall Place then left up Tay Street below the railway bridge and then right across Queen's Bridge which spans the River Tay then left onto the Dundee Road to Bridgend in Perth, then onto the A94 road all the way to the village of Scone in Perthshire, where I live at present
Dingwall to Braemore Junction
2011 Scotland Tour.
Scotland August 2012
Video highlights of a two week sailing holiday in the Western Isles of Scotland in August 2012. This is a rough, low-resolution edit - I may try and do a better 1080p version if I have the time and inclination.
Places that appear in the video:
Ardfern Marina, Argyll
Tobernochy, Isle of Luing
Isle of Iona
Isle of Staffa (Fingal's Cave)
Castle Bay, Isle of Barra
Wizard's Pool, Loch Schiport, South Uist
Duntulan Bay
Isle of Rona
Arisaig, Invernessshire
Isle of Skye
Tobermory, Isle of Mull
Loch Spelve, Isle of Mull
Loch Melfort
Recorded with a Panasonic DMC-TZ30 (compact travel zoom camera) and edited in Final Cut Pro 7.
The boat:
Vagrant is a Bowman 40 - A 40ft (12m) cutter launched in 1989
The music:
I Feel the Freedom - Iain McLaren (2011)
(written, performed and recorded by me)