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  • Blackness Castle

    July 22, 2017 /

    There's nothing romantic about this castle on the Firth of Forth: armed to the teeth, with walls 18 feet thick, Blackness was once a power to be reckoned with

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    Loch Avich and the Castle of the Red-haired Girl

    May 14, 2016

    Orkney: St Magnus’ Cathedral, Kirkwall

    November 27, 2023

    Looking for the Rock of the Dead

    April 15, 2018
  • Melrose Abbey

    January 9, 2017 /

    Scotland's first Cistercian monastery, Melrose still has an air of faded opulence

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    St Bride’s revisited

    September 18, 2015

    Kilneuair Chapel

    January 1, 2021

    St Bride’s: a history worth saving

    June 20, 2018
  • The Palace of Holyroodhouse

    January 20, 2016 /

    At one end of Edinburgh's Royal Mile is this sumptuous palace, with a jaw-dropping list of royal occupants and a rather blood-stained history...

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    Loch an Eilein Castle

    July 2, 2023

    The Govan Stones

    April 29, 2015

    Looking for the yew of Easragan

    May 20, 2019
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