More stunning Outlander film locations we can’t wait to visit across Scotland this summer
If you head to Scotland’s ‘Golf Coast’, you’ll discover a stunning little village overlooking the Firth of Forth that’s just been named one of the UK’s ‘most desirable’.. Gullane (pronounced ‘Gil-lan’ or ‘Gul-lin’ depending on which side of the village you are on) is one of the most picturesque seaside villages in Scotland with its famous golf course, stunning beach and panoramic seaside views.
The beautiful Scottish village on Scotland’s ‘golf coast’ that was recently named one of the UK’s ‘most desirable’
A Church on the moors in the UK. Wandering and finding out of the adventures as a goal for you my readers —-which if you do—means I have actually reached my goal in a small way—now if all of you would do it—-then I could gloat…..PLEASE.
The lost jewels of Bad King John
Laid low by illness, King John ended his days on 19 October 1216, after he had ruled for seventeen years, five months and 4 days. He was ended a great prince but not a happy one and like Marius, he experiencd the ups and downs of fortune. He was munificant and liberal to outsiders but a punisher of his own people, trusting strangers rather than his subjects, wherfore he was eventually deserted by his own men and in the end, little mourned.
Four Gothic Kings
Editd: Elizabeth Hallam
Prince John From Robin Hood? He’s Buried In This Cathedral
A guided tour of Edinburgh Castle
Let’s Look about the Top of Edinburgh
Hundreds were murdered here between 1492 – 1722 under the claim that they were witches–many women and a few men.
Edinburgh: The Witches Tour
Cannonball Restaurant & Bar – Contini Edinburgh
Cannon Ball House
Yes this is the can house that the restaurant is located
There is a legend that the cannon ball that is embedded in the wall of this house was from a cannon fired from Edinburgh Castle torward Holyrood Palace where Bonnie Prince Charlie had taken up residence in 1745 during the Jacobite Uprising.
The facts are less interesting–seems the cannon ball was placed here to indicate the maxgravitational height off the first piped water supply to the city.
Ramsay Gardens
Ramsay Garden Attractions
These rambling half timbered buildings were reconstructed over a few centuries the last constructed by Sir Patrick Geddes were said to have all been completed in 1894.
How Edinburgh’s Ramsay Garden went from student halls to million pound property
Built in 18th c by Alan Ramsey (1740) it was known as the Goose Pie House due to it unusual shape.
Allan Ramsay’s House
New College, Edinburgh
New College,
Mound Pl,
Edinburgh
EH1 2LX,
United Kingdom
New College is a historic building at the University of Edinburgh which houses the university’s School of Divinity. It is one of the largest and most renowned centres for studies in Theology and Religious Studies in the United Kingdom.
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General Assembly Hall
The Assembly Hall is located between Castlehill and Mound Place in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is the meeting place of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland There is a full history of the building on a wall here to the right and to the left is a bronze statue of John Knox
John Knox House On The Royal Mile
and a Bed and Breakfast in the area you might like to check out
Kew House
Walton Hall, Wakefield (also known as Waterton Park Hotel)
The Yorkshireman Charles Watson (1782 – 1865) was a pioneer among English naturalists. When he was 22 he left the family seat at Walton Hall to take over the management of his father’s sugar estates in British Guiana. He was fasinated by the local wildlife and spent the next 20 year scouring the tropical rain forest of South America, collecting specimens of birds and animals in a series extrodinary trips into the larely unknown hinter land, and penetrating thousands of miles of unexplored jungle. What made these journeys even more unusual was that he did it in his bare feet, a policy he maintained in spite of the odd painful accident.
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Orlando, Central Florida’s major city, was settled by soldiers who decided to stick around after the Seminole War in the 1830’s
Fort Christmas: Historical Park
George Boleyn
How about a Queen orientated trip
Anne Boelyn was the 2nd wife of Henry VIII and the first framed (for multiple charges of adultery including incest with her brother). She also bore his second living child– like the the first an unwanted female—but one that would out live and out perform as monarch her older brother……so let’s see if there is any places that might be of interest.
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Inside Hever Castle
Hever Castle
Though Anne was born in Norfolk (The original family home, a manor house in Blickling but that manor house no longer exists. Having been replaced by a Jacobean house, Blickling Hall) this castle in Kent where the family moved when she was still a child and the buildings are the actual castle that she spent some (or all) of her childhood. Infact there are still two of her prayer books here at the house.
You can even stay at the
Bed and Breakfast at the castle
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The north gatehouse, main entrance of St James’s Palace in Pall Mall
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Traces of Catherine of Aragon
St. James Palace
Henry ordered this castle built on the site of a former hospital for leper’s hospital–but it took awhile to get this built and there were and evidentally still are inscriptions here that refer to Anne—who was gone or at least going by the time it was completed. Or was that Anne for a later wife named Anne? He had 2 named Anne, 3 named Katherine, but only one named Jane.
The palace does not welcome visitors, but you can easily view the exterior and visitors are welcome to attend services in the Chapel Royal. Queen Mary I’s heart is buried in the Chapel (the rest of her body lies in Westminster Abbey).
Hampton Court
was originally Cardinal Worsley’s Palace –but when he failed to get the divorce from Katherine that Henry wanted he became a victim of failing Henry–and though he died of natural causes before he could stand trial (he was on the way when natural cause spared him the ax) for failing the king—by that time Henry and Anne were probably already enjoying this fabulous castle—-The Tudor part of the palace still exists (though it was said that when they built the newer part it was suggested that the Tudor part be torn down) and is my favorite part–glad they didn’t tear it down.
The Burial of Anne Boleyn and the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula
There are many other places that one might tie into Anne’s history—-this just gives you a taste of what you can find and then enjoy….just don’t loose your head over it all please.
Every Henry VIII fan needs to visit these places in London
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Took this one just hanging in the Abbacos
The main picture is a house somewhere in Florida which has much more interesting historical homes than a lot of people might imagion. I wander about a lot so who knows.
Have a great Sunday—see you again next week
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