Visit a popular Edinburgh landmark – a dovecot of the 1500s, set in a pleasant leafy suburb. Corstorphine Dovecot was built as part of the Corstorphine Castle estate. Dovecots, or doocots, were an ...
Make sure you don't miss the castle grounds, which include a woodland walk, the site of a Roman fort and new pedestrian bridge. A visit to the castle isn't complete without a trip into the village of ...
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There is currently no visitor access to the east tower and doocot.
Explore an ancient underground passage and trace the remains of long-abandoned buildings. Ardestie is an example of an earth house or souterrain, ancient underground structures common to the British ...
1 Apr to 30 Sept: Sun to Wed, 10am to 4.30pm (last entry 4pm) Closed for lunch 12.30pm to 1pm (last entry at 12 noon) 1 Oct to 31 Mar: Closed ...
Visit the resting place of King James III and his wife Queen Margaret in the shadow of the mighty Stirling Castle. Cambuskenneth Abbey was founded in about 1140 by King David I to serve Stirling ...
Enjoy a hi-tech visitor experience at one of the Industrial Revolution’s best-preserved relics. Interactive displays tell the stories of those who worked here and the products they made. For 200 years ...
Wander the tranquil grounds of a simple parish church built in the late 1200s or early 1300s. St Mary’s Kirk at Auchindoir is a rare survival. Although built simply, like other parish churches of this ...
Edin’s Hall is One of the very few Iron Age brochs in lowland Scotland, surrounded by the remains of a fort built around 2,500 years ago. Nearby is the nationally important Abbey St Bathans Woodland.
Wander the lonely resting place of a mythical Scottish king at this pair of Neolithic burial monuments. The two cairns of Cairn Holy are an impressive survival, particularly Cairnholy I with its ...
See a rare example of a tithe barn – a building constructed to store agricultural production tithes given to the Church. Church tithes, or teind, required 10 per cent of all agricultural produce, such ...