It's been said that the mood of the Scottish landscape depends on the weather more than anywhere else on Earth. And Rannoch Moor is probably the most extreme example of that. Imagine a triangular area ...

Martin Martin was a native Gaelic speaker from Skye who, in the 1690s, became convinced of the need for a first hand account of the society, the culture and the natural history of the Western Isles.

One of the great joys of Scotland is that you can still find places where the influence of modern man is not overwhelmingly obvious. To do so you usually have to head north or west; climb a mountain; ...

After 350 years of The House of Stewarts the English Parliament (without consulting the Scots) passed the Act of Settlement in 1701. This confirmed Queen Anne as heir to the throne after King William.

If you are heading north out of Falkirk along the B902 through Carron towards Stenhousemuir, it's hard to spot where one settlement ends and the next begins. For a short distance in Carron, either ...

Huntingtower Castle is to be found just west of Perth, not far from the junction of the A9 and the A85 Crieff road. Its location is unspectacular, and the margins of Perth seem to be growing steadily ...

In 2016 the MV Coruisk, the ferry mainly shown on this page, was controversially moved to support another of CalMac's services and replaced on this route. We will update this page as soon as possible.

Dryburgh Abbey lies a few hundred yards north of the village of St Boswells. Yet its location, surrounded on three sides by a loop in the River Tweed, means that by road the journey is one of several ...

The Battle of Falkirk Muir was fought on the afternoon of 17 January 1746 and was the last significant Jacobite success of their rising of 1745, a rising that had seen Charles Edward Stuart and his ...

William IV lived from 21 August 1765 to 20 June 1837 and was King of the United Kingdom and of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death. William was the third son of King George III and younger ...

Fort William is the most important town in Scotland south of Inverness, west of Stirling, and north of Glasgow. It forms the natural centre of a very large area and the focus of the road and rail ...

Two miles east of North Berwick is a rocky headland surrounded by cliffs offering stunning views north to the sea-bird colony on Bass Rock. Anywhere else, Bass Rock would dominate the attention, but ...