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An unexpected find within sight of the Edinburgh bypass: thatched cottages in Swanston, on the lower slopes of the Pentland Hills overlooking Edinburgh. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/edinburgh/swanston/index.html

#Scotland #Swanston #Edinburgh #UndiscoveredScotland

The classic view north-west down Glen Docherty towards Kinlochewe and Loch Maree in Wester Ross, complete with the sweeps of the road. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/kinlochewe/kinlochewe/index.html

#Scotland #Kinlochewe #GlenDocherty #LochMaree #WesterRoss #UndiscoveredScotland

The new road bridge that has just opened over a railway line and the River Tay north of Perth - Destiny Bridge.

Photos taken from the foot/cycle path that runs under the bridge alongside the Tay.

#UndiscoveredScotland #RiverTay #perth #perthshire #bridgesofmastodon #destinybridge

Caught for a moment without cars, Queensferry High Street provides a glimpse of a world now long gone. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/southqueensferry/index.html

#Scotland #Queensferry #Edinburgh #SouthQueensferry #UndiscoveredScotland

A view across the harbour entrance - and the mouth of the River Dee - of Aberdeen’s busy harbour, with the centre of the city beyond it. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/aberdeen/aberdeen/index.html

#Scotland #Aberdeen #UndiscoveredScotland

Congratulations to kim_harding @kim_harding for being the first to identify this as Edinburgh Castle and the Grassmarket, and thanks to everyone who took part.
The wider view can be seen on this page: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/edinburgh/edinburgh/index.html

#Scotland #WhereInScotland #Quiz #UndiscoveredScotland

Congratulations to Chris Lilley @svgeesus for being the first to identify this as Traquair House in the Scottish Borders, and thanks to everyone who took part.
The wider view can be seen on this page: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/innerleithen/traquair/index.html

#Scotland #WhereInScotland #Quiz #UndiscoveredScotland

WHERE IN SCOTLAND?

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#Scotland #WhereInScotland #Quiz #UndiscoveredScotland

The ferry slipway and the village of Baile Mor on the enchanting, magical, island of Iona, just off the south-west tip of the Isle of Mull. Pilgrims have been coming here for nearly fourteen centuries and tourists for three. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/iona/iona/index.html

#Scotland #Iona #Islands #IsleOfMull #Pilgrims #UndiscoveredScotland

Congratulations to Spaceways @Spaceways for being the first to identify this as Collieston in Aberdeenshire, and thanks to everyone who took part.
The wider view can be seen on this page: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/collieston/collieston/index.html
#Scotland #WhereInScotland #Quiz #UndiscoveredScotland

The view east from the top of (in our opinion) Scotland's best mountain, Suilven, inland from Lochinver on the west coast of Sutherland. Just 2,389ft high, the name is said to come from the Norse for "Pillar Mountain". More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/lochinver/suilven/index.html

#Scotland #Sutherland #Mountains #Suilven #Assynt #UndiscoveredScotland

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Spectacular cliff scenery near Eshaness lighthouse on the west coast of Shetland on a stormy day. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/shetland/eshaness/index.html

#Scotland #Shetland #Eshaness #Cliffs #Storm #Atlantic #UndiscoveredScotland

Congratulations to Anja @Anja2 for being the first to identify this as Inverewe Garden in Wester Ross, and thanks to everyone who took part.
The wider view can be seen on this page: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/poolewe/inverewe/index.html

#Scotland #WhereInScotland #Quiz #UndiscoveredScotland

Part of the Ring of Brodgar stone circle, superbly located between the Loch of Stenness and the Loch of Harray on Orkney's West Mainland. When erected, over 4,000 years ago, 60 stones stood here: now there are 36. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/westmainland/ringofbrodgar/index.html

#Scotland #Orkney #RingOfBrodgar #StoneCircle #Neolithic #WestMainland #UndiscoveredScotland

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A view across Loch Euphort on the enchanting island of North Uist in the Western Isles. North Uist measures some 18 miles from east to west by 12 miles from north to south, and has a remarkably complex topography. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/northuist/northuist/index.html

#Scotland #LochEuphort #NorthUist #WesternIsles #UndiscoveredScotland

The Riverside Museum is a spectacular landmark on the River Clyde in Glasgow. Home to the Museum of Transport and Travel, the building itself, which opened in 2011, is every bit as fascinating as the exhibits it houses. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/glasgow/riversidemuseum/index.html

#Scotland #Glasgow #RiversideMuseum #Museums #ZahaHadid #UndiscoveredScotland

Beautiful Glen Clova, which runs for some 18 miles north then north-west from Kirriemuir before finishing at Glendoll. It is the best known and most popular of the Angus Glens that cut into the southern flank of the Cairngorms. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/clova/clova/index.html

#Scotland #Angus #Glens #GlenClova #Cairngorms #UndiscoveredScotland

The magnificent Aberlemno Kirkyard Pictish cross slab in Angus. It is one of the finest of all the Pictish stones to have survived and the rear of the slab come complete with battle scene depiction, a Bayeux Tapestry in stone. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/forfar/aberlemnokirk/index.html

#Scotland #Angus #Aberlemno #Picts #CarvedStones #UndiscoveredScotland

The beautiful east side of Loch Lomond at Balmaha and the island of Inchcailloch. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/balmaha/balmaha/index.html

#Scotland #Balmaha #LochLomond #Inchcailloch #UndiscoveredScotland

The beautiful east side of Loch Lomond at Balmaha and the island of Inchcailloch. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/balmaha/balmaha/index.html

#Scotland #Balmaha #LochLomond #Inchcailloch #UndiscoveredScotland

The beautiful east side of Loch Lomond at Balmaha and the island of Inchcailloch. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/balmaha/balmaha/index.html

#Scotland #Balmaha #LochLomond #Inchcailloch #UndiscoveredScotland

The beautiful east side of Loch Lomond at Balmaha and the island of Inchcailloch. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/balmaha/balmaha/index.html

#Scotland #Balmaha #LochLomond #Inchcailloch #UndiscoveredScotland

The beautiful east side of Loch Lomond at Balmaha and the island of Inchcailloch. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/balmaha/balmaha/index.html

#Scotland #Balmaha #LochLomond #Inchcailloch #UndiscoveredScotland

The superb Skye Museum of Island Life, near the tip of the Isle of Skye's Trotternish peninsula, gives an insight into a way of life common on Skye at the close of the 1800s but which has since virtually disappeared. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/skye/museumofislandlife/index.html

#Scotland #IsleOfSkye #Skye #Trotternish #Museums #UndiscoveredScotland

"Take me to your leader!" The highly distinctive stills at Pulteney Distillery, Wick. Pulteney is one of only a few Scottish distilleries to be named after a person, Sir William Pulteney, the founder of Pulteneytown. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/wick/pulteneydistillery/index.html

#Scotland #PulteneyDistillery #Distillery #Scotch #Whisky #Wick #UndiscoveredScotland

Congratulations to @venite
for being the first to identify this as the Skye Bridge seen from Kyleakin on Skye, and thanks to everyone who took part.
The wider view can be seen on this page: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/skye/kyleakin/index.html
#Scotland #WhereInScotland #Quiz #UndiscoveredScotland

The amazing view south from the top of the north cantilever of the Forth Bridge, the first of three great bridges built in three different centuries that cross this part of the Firth of Forth. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/forthrailbridge/index.html

#Scotland #ForthBridge #Queensferry #Edinburgh #Bridge #UndiscoveredScotland

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Elcho Castle, close to the south bank of the River Tay south-east of Perth and one of Scotland's most enjoyable castles. Possibly built on the site of an earlier defensive structure, its origins date back to about 1570. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/perth/elchocastle/index.html

#Scotland #Perth #Elcho #Castles #UndiscoveredScotland

Congratulations to @jesshurch for being the first to identify this as Duffus Castle in Moray, and thanks to everyone who took part.
The wider view can be seen on this page: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/duffus/duffuscastle/index.html
#Scotland #WhereInScotland #Quiz #UndiscoveredScotland

There's nowhere quite like Stromness in Orkney. It stretches for over a mile along the shore of Hamnavoe, an inlet of Scapa Flow. The core of the town is a main street that twists and turns between the shoreline and the hillside behind. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/stromness/stromness/index.html
#Scotland #Orkney #Stromness #WestMainland #UndiscoveredScotland

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The ruins of the Earl's Palace seen over the village of Birsay, on Orkney's West Mainland. It was built using forced labour between 1569 and 1574 by the deeply unloved Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/westmainland/earlspalace/index.html

#Scotland #Orkney #Birsay #WestMainland #UndiscoveredScotland

The Corran ferry, which crosses Loch Linnhe south of Fort William and gives access to Morvern, Moidart and Ardnamurchan, waiting for customers at Nether Lochaber on the sort of wintry night that makes you long for summer. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/corran/corranferry/index.html

#Scotland #Highland #CorranFerry #Lochaber #UndiscoveredScotland

The main stone circle at Temple Wood, one of many amazing prehistoric monuments in Kilmartin Glen in Argyll. The site was developed in a series of stages between 5,000 years ago and 3,300 years ago. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/kilmartin/templewood/index.html

#Scotland #StoneCircle #TempleWood #Kilmartin #Argyll #UndiscoveredScotland

The village of Cullipool, the largest settlement on the island of Luing, one of the Slate Islands off the coast of Argyll south of Oban. It owes its existence to the quarrying of slate. The Isle of Mull can be seen in the distance. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/luing/cullipool/index.html

#Scotland #Luing #SlateIslands #Cullipool #Argyll #UndiscoveredScotland

The amazing beach on the west side of the island of Berneray in the Western Isles. Berneray lies in the Sound of Harris and is attached to North Uist by a causeway that was opened in 1999. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/berneray/berneray/index.html

#Scotland #Berneray #Beach #WesternIsles #UndiscoveredScotland

The superbly remote Loch Arkaig in Lochaber, said to be the hiding place of a hoard of gold coins landed by the French at Loch nan Uamh in late April 1746 in support of the (by then already failed) Jacobite rising. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/speanbridge/locharkaig/index.html

#Scotland #LochArkaig #Lochaber #Jacobites #Gold #UndiscoveredScotland

309 years ago today. Ormacleit Castle on South Uist, occupied for just seven years after taking seven to build. It is said to have burned down on the day of the Battle of Sheriffmuir, 13 November 1715, at which its laird was killed. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/southuist/ormacleitcastle/index.html

#Scotland #OnThisDay #OrmaclaitCastle #SouthUist #WesternIsles #UndiscoveredScotland

The imposing and poignant 5.2m high Commando Memorial near Spean Bridge. Sculpted by Scott Sutherland, it was unveiled in 1952 as a memorial to the commandos; whose wartime basic training centre had been at nearby Achnacarry Castle. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/speanbridge/commando/index.htmL

#Scotland #CommandoMemorial #SpeanBridge #Commandos #UndiscoveredScotland

The imposing Dunrobin Castle near Golspie in Sutherland, set on a prominent bluff a little back from the shore and towering over its gardens. It is first mentioned in writing as a stronghold of the Earls of Sutherland in 1401. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/golspie/dunrobincastle/index.html

#Scotland #DunrobinCastle #Golspie #Sutherland #UndiscoveredScotland

Stonehaven's war memorial, sited in an imposing hilltop position overlooking the sea just to the south of the town. Its location ensures it is visible from most of Stonehaven and from much of the surrounding area. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/stonehaven/warmemorial/index.html

#Scotland #Stonehaven #Aberdeenshire #WarMemorial #UndiscoveredScotland

A view towards the head of beautiful Glen Etive, which runs for 14 miles south-west from the upper end of Glen Coe to the head of Loch Etive. Once there you turn round and come back: but it's a wonderful drive to somewhere very special. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/glenetive/glenetive/index.html

#Scotland #GlenEtive #GlenCoe #UndiscoveredScotland

A view towards the head of beautiful Glen Etive, which runs for 14 miles south-west from the upper end of Glen Coe to the head of Loch Etive. Once there you turn round and come back: but it's a wonderful drive to somewhere very special. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/glenetive/glenetive/index.html

#Scotland #GlenEtive #GlenCoe #UndiscoveredScotland

A view towards the head of beautiful Glen Etive, which runs for 14 miles south-west from the upper end of Glen Coe to the head of Loch Etive. Once there you turn round and come back: but it's a wonderful drive to somewhere very special. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/glenetive/glenetive/index.html

#Scotland #GlenEtive #GlenCoe #UndiscoveredScotland

A view towards the head of beautiful Glen Etive, which runs for 14 miles south-west from the upper end of Glen Coe to the head of Loch Etive. Once there you turn round and come back: but it's a wonderful drive to somewhere very special. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/glenetive/glenetive/index.html

#Scotland #GlenEtive #GlenCoe #UndiscoveredScotland

A view towards the head of beautiful Glen Etive, which runs for 14 miles south-west from the upper end of Glen Coe to the head of Loch Etive. Once there you turn round and come back: but it's a wonderful drive to somewhere very special. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/glenetive/glenetive/index.html

#Scotland #GlenEtive #GlenCoe #UndiscoveredScotland

Glen Roy's "parallel roads", north of Roybridge in Lochaber. Long held in folklore to be hunting paths used by the Celtic warrior Fingal, they actually mark different shore lines of a vast ancient loch created by glacial ice. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/roybridge/glenroy/index.html

#Scotland #GlenRoy #Lochaber #ParallelRoads #Glaciation #UndiscoveredScotland