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ISBN: 9781904434801

Seventh Edition

526 pages in full colour

Publication: Jan 2010

Author: David Gerrard

The Hidden Places of Scotland

Includes the Highlands & Islands

 UK £11.99

 

 

 

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This is the 7th edition of The Hidden Places of Scotland taking you on a relaxed but informative tour of this wild and often wonderful country.

 

Scotland has been inhabited for thousands of years and is rich in history and culture.  It is blessed with some of the most impressive mountains in the British Isles and finest coastlines and offshore islands in the world.  It is also full of “hidden places”, which can enrich the visitor’s knowledge of Scottish heritage and provide landscapes that astound the eye with their sheer beauty.

 

Here are some nuggets of information from the guide book to whet your appetite...

 

Scalloway - During World War II the village was a secret base from where Norwegians were ferried across to their country in fishing boats (nicknamed "Shetland buses") to mount sabotage operations and bring back resistance fighters who were on the run from German troops. The Scalloway Museum in Main Street tells the story of these men, as well as the story of Scalloway itself. There are plans to move this museum to larger premises, next to the castle, for summer 2011.

 

Edinburgh - Borthwick Castle is a massive twin-towered castle built by Sir William Borthwick in about 1430. It was to this castle that Mary Stuart and Bothwell came after their marriage in 1567. It was a marriage which displeased the Scottish people and more than a thousand Scottish nobles cornered the couple there. They demanded that Mary hand over Bothwell for his part in the murder of Lord Darnley, Mary’s second husband. However, Bothwell escaped and fled to Dunbar.

On hearing of his escape, the nobles immediately retired from the Queen’s presence, thinking that she had seen through his treachery. However, no sooner had they left her than she tore off her fine gowns and put on breeches and a pageboy’s shirt, and made her escape so that she could rejoin her husband. The Red Room is said to be haunted by her ghost.

 
 

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