Stirling
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels , History

Cambuskenneth Abbey

May 20, 2015
Sitting in a loop of the River Forth within sight of Stirling Castle, this quiet place has witnessed some key …
  • History , Scottish castles

The value of Stirling

December 08, 2013
Forbidding and silent, Stirling Castle stands on a natural clifftop overlooking the River Forth. Battles have raged below its …
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BRITISH TREES
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SCOTTISH CASTLES
  • Loch Avich and the Castle of the Red-haired Girl
  • Dunyvaig Castle, Isle of Islay
  • The Palace of Holyroodhouse
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MEGALITHIC
  • Croft Moraig: circle of light
  • Temple Wood stone circles, Kilmartin Glen
  • Kintraw’s lonely watcher
  • Diarmuid and Grainne: a boar hunt and a tragic love story in Glen Lonan
CHURCHES, CHAPELS & ABBEYS
  • Kelso Abbey: piety and pride
  • The Garvellachs: just below the surface
  • Fountains Abbey: from simplicity to splendour
  • St Brendan and the Garvellachs
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