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Perthshire’s Pyramid

Rural Perthshire is one of the few places you will find a pyramid in Scotland. Perched atop Carn Tuile, near…

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Exploring Wartime Relics at Braefoot Point, Fife

During the two world wars, the batteries of the Forth Coastal Defences were established to protect shipping on what was…

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Rise and demise of Strathmartine Hospital, Dundee

The last days of Dundee’s derelict Strathmartine Hospital, established 170 years ago to pioneer the treatment and care of mentally…

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Polish Priest’s Cross

Hidden away in woodland overlooking the Angus village of Newtyle, a lone wooden cross stands amongst the trees. Known as…

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Walking on Water to Vallay

The tiny tidal island of Vallay lies just off the coast of North Uist, in the Outer Hebrides. Abandoned by…

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Dundee’s cemetery of plague, pestilence and infant mortality

Dundee was not a place to be growing up in the mid-19th century, a time when the city had the…

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Leng Memorial Chapel

The Leng Memorial Chapel is a pretty and very striking wee kirk enjoying a prominent spot in the north Fife…

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Drive the Golden Road

The Golden Road is 21-miles of snaking single track asphalt winding its way up (or down, dependent on which way…

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Scalpay’s Historic Lighthouse

The Eilean Glas Lighthouse on the Hebridean island of Scalpay was one of the first four beacons to be erected…

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Shelter Stone

The Shelter Stone, known in Gaelic as Clach Dhion, is sometimes referred to as a bothy but it is more…

cairngorms, howff, mountains, refuge, shelter, walk

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