ruined castles
  • History , Scottish castles

Castle Sween: still watching for the sails

June 13, 2013
Dreaming of times gone by, this wonderful 12th-century castle looks out over Loch Sween and the Sound of Jura.
  • History , Scottish castles

Kilchurn Castle on Loch Awe

December 02, 2011
Built in 1450 by the powerful Campbells of Glen Orchy, Kilchurn Castle sits in splendid decay on a rocky islet …
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels , History , Scottish castles

Skipness Castle and Kilbrannan Chapel

July 27, 2011
In the first of my new series on Scottish Castles I'm taking a look at Skipness, a picturesque 13th century …
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I'm honoured to be Writer in Residence at the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. This book celebrates the lives of 50 great explorers......
BRITISH TREES
  • The power of the elder
  • The magic of the birch
  • The darkness of the yew
  • The Scots pine: keeper of the forest
SCOTTISH CASTLES
  • Dunnottar: the last bastion
  • Drumlanrig Castle: unbridled splendour
  • Castle Stalker: plenty to brood on
  • Loch Avich and the Castle of the Red-haired Girl
MEGALITHIC
  • The Ballymeanoch stones, Kilmartin Glen
  • Croft Moraig: circle of light
  • Kintraw’s lonely watcher
  • Camas nan Geall: ‘the Bay of the Strangers’
CHURCHES, CHAPELS & ABBEYS
  • Cambuskenneth Abbey
  • Skipness Castle and Kilbrannan Chapel
  • St Bride’s revisited
  • Jedburgh Abbey
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