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This wood we’ll hold as long as we stand, To the last man we’ll fight it, sword in hand. The right is ours, let’s do it manfully; I’ll free this land once more before I die. Newburgh has an unmarked spot of history, going back 700 years ago. In the year of 1298, in the […]

Severus, accordingly, desiring to subjugate the whole of it, invaded Caledonia – Cassius Dio – Carpow lies on the south bank of the Tay Estuary, just east of its confluence with the Earn. Roman remains were noted here in the eighteenth century, but it was not until 1961-2 that a formal investigation of the site

Nothing worthy of observation, the very ruins being almost eaten up by time – Daniel Defoe – The vast majority of present day visitors to Balmerino Abbey would strongly dispute this assertion. This Cistercian monastery was founded in 1229 by the widowed queen of William the Lyon, then destroyed during the Reformation. A Spanish Chestnut

Ballinbreich Castle Positioned on the south bank of the river Tay in Fife, Ballinbreich Estate became the property through marriage of the Leslie family around 1312, although records show that as early as 1160 the land originally belonged to Orm, son of Hugh of Abernethy. The name Ballinbreich is derived from an ancient Celtic name and is