The Royal Oak Memorial Garden is a poignant place. Despite the name, it was established to "offer the chance to reflect on all the lives lost in Scapa Flow in WWI and WWII." As well as the men and ...

Tarves Heritage Centre can be found in the corner of the attractive square in the heart of Tarves in Aberdeenshire. It occupies part of a Victorian school building that dates back to 1837. What you ...

The kirkyard in the village of Tarves is home to the Tarves Tomb, sometimes known as the Tolquhon Tomb. This is the superb monumental tomb in which are buried William Forbes, 7th Laird of Tolquhon and ...

We were awakened at six o'clock in the morning, and after a good breakfast we left the Half-Way House (later the "Aultnamain Inn"), and well pleased we were with the way the landlady had catered for ...

During the Napoleonic Wars the danger from French ships in the English Channel and North Sea meant that the route around the west and north of Scotland via Orkney became important for British trade ...

An essential part of any tour of St Andrews is a visit to the ruin of its once mighty castle. This site was fortified by the 1100s, and from around 1200 it was adopted as the main residence of the ...

Daniel Defoe is best known as the author of Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719. However between 1724 and 1726 he published the three volume work, A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, ...