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Highland regiment, while the childhood home of the late
Museum and Art Gallery has Queen Elizabeth the Queen
displays on local industry and Mother, and her former bed­
exhibitions of Scottish painting. room can be viewed, including
a youthful portrait by Henri de
Environs Laszlo (1878–1956).
Three km (2 miles) north of Perth, Many rooms are open to the
Gothic Scone Palace stands on public, including Duncan’s Hall,
the site of an abbey destroyed the oldest in the castle and
by John Knox’s followers in Shakespeare’s setting for the
1559. Between the 9th and 13th king’s murder in Macbeth. The
centuries, Scone guarded the rooms present china, paintings,
Perth seen from the east across the Tay sacred Stone of Destiny, now in tapes tries and furniture spanning
Edinburgh Castle (see pp64–5). 500 years. In the grounds stands
7 Doune Castle The film Monty Python and the a pair of wrought­ iron gates
Holy Grail was shot here, and it + Balhousie Castle made for the Queen Mother on
Doune, Central. Tel (01786) 841742. RHQ Black Watch, Hay St. Tel (01738)
3 @ Stirling then bus. Open Apr– has also featured in Game of 638152. Open 9:30am–4:30pm daily her 80th birthday in 1980.
Sep: 9:30am–5:30pm daily; Oct–Mar: Thrones and Outlander. (Nov–Mar: 10am–4pm) -
10am–4pm daily. & 7 limited. 9 View of St Andrews over the ruins of the cathedral
∑ historicenvironment.scot E Museum and Art Gallery 0 Dundee
8 Perth 78 George St. Tel (01738) 632488. of Design by architect Kengo q St Andrews
Built as the residence of Robert, Perthshire. * 47,200. 3 @ Open 10am–5pm Tue–Sat Tayside. * 147,300. ~ 3 @ n Kuma is under construction on Fife. * 17,000. 3 Leuchars. £
16 City Square (01382) 527527. (
Duke of Albany, in the late n 45 High St. Tel (01738) 450600. (also Sun Apr–Oct). 7 farmers’ market 3rd Sat of month (May– the waterfront and due to open n 70 Market St (01334) 472021.
1300s, Doune Castle was a ∑ visitperthshire.co.uk + Scone Palace Oct). ∑ visitangus.com by 2018. It will showcase Scottish ∑ standrews.co.uk
Stuart strong hold until it fell A93 to Braemar. Tel (01738) 552300. and international design.
into ruin in the 18th century. Once the capital of medieval Open Apr–Oct: daily. & 7 = Famous for its fruit cake and Scotland’s oldest university
Now fully restored, it offers a Scotland, Perth has a rich heritage marmalade, the city of Dundee Environs town and one­time eccle­
unique view into the life of the that is reflected in many of its was also a major shipbuilding Along the coast, Arbroath is siastical capital, St Andrews
medieval royal household. buildings. It was in the Church of 9 Glamis Castle centre in the 18th and 19th famed for its red stonework, is now a shrine to golfers from
The Gatehouse leads to the St John, founded in 1126, that the Glamis, outside Forfar, Tayside. centuries, a period which is abbey and “Arbroath Smokies” all over the world. Its main
central courtyard, from which preacher John Knox delivered Tel (01307) 840393. 3 @ Dundee recreated at the Victoria Docks. (salted haddock smoked over streets and cobbled alleys,
the Great Hall can be entered. the fiery sermons that led to the then bus. Open Apr–Oct: 11am– HMS Unicorn, built in 1824, is a beech and oak fire). Arbroath full of crooked house fronts,
Com plete with its open-timber des truction of many local mon- 5:30pm. & 8 7 grounds. ∑ the oldest British­built war ship Abbey displays a copy of The dignified uni versity buildings
roof, minstrels’ gallery and as teries. The Victorianized Fair glamis-castle.co.uk still afloat and is fitted as it was Declaration of Arbroath, attesting and medieval churches,
central fire place, the Hall adjoins Maid’s House (c.1600), on North on its last voyage. Berthed at Scotland’s independence. converge on the venerable ruins
the Lord’s Hall and Private Room Port, is one of the oldest houses With the pinnacled out line of Riverside is the royal re search of the 12th­ century cathedral.
with its original privy and well- in town and was the fictional a Loire chateau, the imposing ship Discovery. Built here in 1901 E HMS Unicorn Once the largest cathedral in
hatch. A number of private stairs home of the heroine of Sir Walter medieval tower -house of Glamis for the first of Captain Scott’s Victoria Docks, Tel (01382) 200900. Scotland, it was later pillaged
and nar row passages illustrate Scott’s The Fair Maid of Perth (1828). Castle began as a royal hunting voyages to the Antarctic, the Open Easter–Oct: 10am–5pm daily; for its stones, which were used
the ingenious means by which In Balhousie Castle, the lodge in the 11th century but Discovery was one of the last sail­ Nov–Mar: noon–4pm Wed–Fri (from to build the town. St Andrews
10am Sat & Sun). & 7 limited.
the royal family protected itself Museum of the Black Watch under went reconstruction in ing ships to be made in Britain. Castle was built for the town’s
during times of danger. commemorates the first ever the 17th century. It was the Housed in a Victorian Gothic E Discovery bishops in the year 1200 and
building, the McManus Galleries Discovery Point. Tel (01382) 309 060. the dungeon can still be seen.
provide a glimpse of Dundee’s Open daily. & 7 - 8 by appt. The St Andrews golf courses
industrial heritage, with exhibi t­ E McManus Galleries occupy the land to the west
ions of archaeology and Victorian Albert Institute, Albert Sq. of the city, and each is open
art. The stunning V&A Museum Tel (01382) 307200. Open daily. for a modest fee.
The British Golf Museum,
The Birthplace of Golf which tells how the city’s
Royal and Ancient Golf Club
Scotland’s national game (see pp194–7) was pioneered on the sandy became the ruling arbiter
links around St Andrews. The earliest record of the game being of the game, will delight
played dates from 1457, when golf was banned by James II because golf enthusiasts.
it was interfering with his One of the chief pleasures
subjects’ archery practice. of a visit here is a walk along
Mary, Queen of Scots was the sands, immortalized in
berated in 1568 for playing the film, Chariots of Fire.
immediately after her
husband, Darnley, had + St Andrews Castle
been murdered.
The Scores. Tel (01334) 477196.
Open daily. & 7 8
Mary, Queen of Scots at E British Golf Museum
St Andrews in 1563 Bruce Embankment. Tel (01334)
Glamis Castle with statues of James VI (left) and Charles I (right) 4600046. Open daily. & 7
For hotels and restaurants see pp175–6 and pp186–7

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