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Undiscovered Scotland
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Undiscovered Scotland is a combination of visitor guide, accommodation listing and business directory which aims to show you what the country is really like.
Website: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/
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The impressive statue of a Border Reiver standing outside Galashiels Burgh Chambers in the heart of Galashiels in the Scottish Borders. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #ScottishBorders #Galashiels
The statue of a Border Reiver standing outside Galashiels Burgh Chambers in the heart of Galashiels in the Scottish Borders. The image shows a grey metal statue of a man with a lance and sword on a horse facing to the left, with part of a building on the right of the frame. The scene is in sunlight.
December 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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The view along Loch Shiel from above its head at Glenfinnan in Lochaber, showing the mountains on its south-east shore and Eilean Ghleann Fhionainn. It was at Glenfinnan that Bonnie Prince Charlie raised his standard in August 1745. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Lochaber
The view along Loch Shiel, showing the mountains on its south-east shore and Eilean Ghleann Fhionainn. The image shows an island in the blue loch, largely covered in trees. There are mountains rising to the left and in the background. A thin band of cloud extends across the furthest mountain, leaving its top clear. The scene is in sunlight.
December 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Magnificent Ben More on the Isle of Mull, complete with its own weather system, seen from Pennyghael across Loch Scridain. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #IsleOfMull #Mull #Pennyghael #BenMore
The image shows a loch with a stony shore extending from bottom left to further into the frame on the right in the foreground. Beyond it is a blue loch and on the far shore of the loch the land rises steadily to a twin-peaked mountain in the background, with clouds forming over the peaks and heading off in three directions. The scene is in sunlight.
December 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Whithorn Priory in Dumfries & Galloway. The building you see today is the successor to the first church in Scotland, probably built over sixteen centuries ago in the 390s. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #DumfriesAndGalloway #Whitorn #WhithornPriory
The image shows a roofless grey stone church from an oblique angle from the left centre of the frame back into it on the right. There is an ornate arched doorway on the side of the near corner and tall window openings along the church. There are gravestones in the foreground. The scene is in sunlight.
December 4, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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The perfect Georgian country house? The lovely House of Dun near Montrose in Angus was built to a design by William Adam between 1730 and 1743 near the site of an earlier castle. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #HouseOfDun #Georgian #NTS #Montrose #Angus
The House of Dun near Montrose in Angus. The image shows the grey stone house standing beyond its garden and steps. It is seven bays wide and two storeys high with an ornate roofline and four blocks of chimneys. A well-manicured hedge cuts across the frame this side of the house. The sky is blue.
December 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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The magical Stones of Stenness circle and henge on Orkney's West Mainland, with the mountains of Hoy in the distance. The stones you see today are part of a ring of 12 tall stones and a surrounding ditch from between 3000BC and 2500BC. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Orkney
The Stones of Stenness circle and henge on Orkney's West Mainland. The image shows a grassy area in the foreground with a road behind then a loch cutting across the frame and low-lying land behind it. In the distance are hills. There are four standing stones in the grassy area, two low ones on the left, a taller one on the right, and the tallest in the centre of the frame. Another stone is lying on the ground in the left foreground. Sunlight is coming from the right.
December 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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When is an island not an island? At low tide if it's tidal. This is the causeway leading to Cramond Island in the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh. It's a very good idea to check the notice about tide times before venturing across. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Edinburgh
Cramond Island. The image shows the causeway leading to Cramond Island in the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh at low tide, with a group of people starting to cross and the island in the distance. The concrete causeway extends from the bottom left to the upper right of the frame and the island stretches across the picture, with mud this side of it. The scene is in sunlight.
December 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Beautiful Inchmahone Priory on its island in the Lake of Menteith in the Trossachs. It was founded by Augustinian canons who came here from Cambuskenneth Abbey near Stirling in 1238. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #InchmahonePriory #LakeOfMenteith #Trossachs
Inchmahone Priory on its island in the Lake of Menteith in the Trossachs. The image shows the grey stone ruins of the cloister of the priory extending across the centre of the frame with grass in the centre of the cloister and this side of the ruins. There are trees with different coloured leaves in the background. The scene is in sunlight.
December 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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The harbourmaster's office in the lovely village of St Abbs in the Scottish Borders. The name has ancient origins. In 635 a Northumbrian Princess who later became St Aebbe founded a monastery close to what is now St Abbs Head. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #ScottishBorders
The harbourmaster's office in the lovely village of St Abbs in the Scottish Borders. The office is a wooden hut, and there are fishing nets piled in the foreground, with the village is rising in the background. A lifebelt is handing on a wall on the right of the frame.
December 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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The single track road north of Kingairloch in Morvern, running along the shore of Loch Linnhe. More about where to find Scotland's single track roads and how to drive them here: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #SingleTrackRoad #Road #Morvern #LochLinnhe
The single track road north of Kingairloch in Morvern, running along the shore of Loch Linnhe. The image shows a narrow road with a rock face rising on the left and a shoreline on the right. There are snowy mountains in the distance.
December 1, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Another for St Andrew's Day. The flag of #Scotland is the Saltire, the white diagonal cross of St Andrew on a blue field. Read the story of one of the oldest flags in the world, dating back, according to the version of the story you believe, to 832 or further, perhaps to 761: www.undiscoveredscot...
The image shows a Saltire, a white diagonal cross on a light blue background, fluttering to the left from a flagpole on the right side of the frame. The outer corners of the flag are frayed. The sun is shining through the end of the flag nearest the flagpole on the right. The sky is light blue.
November 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Happy St Andrew's Day! Scotland's patron saint is St Andrew and his feast day is celebrated by both eastern and western Christian churches on 30 November. The picture is of St Andrews. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #StAndrewsDay #StAndrews #Fife
The image shows the town of St Andrews in Fife as seen from the top of St Rule's Tower, giving an almost aerial perspective from the east. The remains of the cathedral are in the lower part of the frame and rooftops and church towers extend into the distance, with fields and hills in the background. The sky is light blue.
November 30, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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A reminder of summer: blue poppies at the Dawyck Botanic Garden near Stobo in the Scottish Borders, some eight miles south-west of Peebles and a similar distance south-east of Biggar. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #ScottishBorders #Dawyck
Blue poppies at the Dawyck Botanic Garden. The image shows a cluster of light blue poppies in dappled sunlight against a background of green stems and leaves. The two largest flowers are in the left and right centre of the frame.
November 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Edzell Castle, near Edzell in Angus. The castle you see today was built from the early 1500s to replace a nearby motte built in about 1100. The remarkable walled garden was designed to provide a delightful retreat from the castle. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Angus
Edzell Castle, near Edzell in Angus. The image shows a pinkish stone ruined tower house across the centre of the frame, with the tower on the left and other buildings to the right of it. The tower is complete to roof level. This side of the buildings is a formal garden with low box hedges. The ground rises in the background. The scene is in sunlight.
November 29, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Kildrummy Castle in Aberdeenshire, built in about 1250 by the Earl of Mar and once one of Scotland's most magnificent castles. It was located where it could command important routes across the region. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Kildrummy #Aberdeenshire
Kildrummy Castle in Aberdeenshire. The image shows the grey stone ruins of the castle under a clear blue sky. A wall on the right of the frame extends to considerable height and continues round to the middle of the frame. The bases of other stone ruins can be seen, including in the foreground. Areas of grass have daisies growing.
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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A view from the west of the lovely harbour at Crail, the most easterly of the line of settlements along the south side of the East Neuk of Fife. It has an ancient history, being well settled by the 800s and thriving by the 1100s. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Fife
The harbour at Crail. The image is looking down from a high viewpoint onto a harbour bounded by honey-coloured stone rubble walls that come in from the bottom of both sides of the frame to leave an entrance in the bottom middle. The tide is out and small boats in the harbour are high and dry. In the background cottages and buildings of stone or in white and many with red tile roofs climb a hillside. The sea can be glimpsed in the upper right of the frame. The scene is in sunlight.
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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The remarkable "firehoose" at Kirbuster Museum on Orkney's West Mainland. This part of the farmstead dates back at least as far as 1595, and the smoke from the peat fire simply makes its way out of a hole or "lum" left in the roof. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Orkney
The "firehoose" at Kirbuster Museum on Orkney's West Mainland. The image shows the interior of a stone farmstead. There is a fire and grate in the centre of the floor, set against a short and low stone wall. Wooden furniture is set around the walls and light is coming from the roof. A rope above the fire is uses to suspend fish to cure.
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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A wintry view of the single track road east from remote Achiltibuie, north-west of Ullapool. The prominent peaky mountain is Stac Pollaidh whose character is out of all proportion to its mere 613m or 2,009ft in height. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #WesterRoss #StacPollaidh
A wintry view of the single track road east from remote Achiltibuie. The image shows a road leading out from the centre of the bottom of the frame with a passing place sign to its left. The road disappears over a hum, leaving snowy land extending out to the start of mountains, which climb to a spiky peak in the top left of the frame and are covered in snow. The scene is in sunlight.
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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The ferry slipway and the village of Baile Mor on the enchanting, magical, island of Iona, just off the south-west tip of the Isle of Mull. Pilgrims have been coming here for nearly fourteen centuries and tourists for three. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Iona #IsleOfMull
The ferry slipway and the village of Baile Mor on Iona, shown on a sunny day with clear blue skies. In the lower left of the frame is a concrete slipway and a blue and white boat is moored to it, facing away from the camera. It is called Ullin of Staffa. The village is in the background, mainly comprising white buildings, though one is of stone. The land rises in the background.
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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The view east from the top of (in our opinion) Scotland's best mountain, Suilven, inland from Lochinver on the west coast of Sutherland. Just 2,389ft high, the name is said to come from the Norse for "Pillar Mountain". More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Sutherland #Assynt
The view east from the top of Suilven, inland from Lochinver on the west coast of Sutherland. The image shows descending rocky ground in the foreground leading to a narrow neck and then climbing to a sharply pointing peak, which is slightly lower than us. In the background is much lower lying land of stony ground with rivers and lochs. The sunlight is patchy.
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Spectacular cliff scenery near Eshaness lighthouse on the west coast of Shetland on a stormy day. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Shetland #Eshaness
Spectacular cliff scenery near Eshaness lighthouse on the west coast of Shetland on a stormy day. The image shows white waves crashing against dark cliffs, with a single small figure in red standing on top of the cliffs in the upper right of the frame. The cliffs face left and the surface of the sea is largely covered in white foam. The sky is grey.
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Part of the Ring of Brodgar stone circle, superbly located between the Loch of Stenness and the Loch of Harray on Orkney's West Mainland. When erected, over 4,000 years ago, 60 stones stood here: now there are 36. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Orkney #RingOfBrodgar
Part of the Ring of Brodgar stone circle in Orkney. The image shows an arc of six standing stones under a clear blue sky. The tallest stone is on the right of the frame and has been split vertically. The others curve around to the left and there are two people standing close to the third. A loch and hills can be seen in the background.
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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A view across Loch Euphort on the enchanting island of North Uist in the Western Isles. North Uist measures some 18 miles from east to west by 12 miles from north to south, and has a remarkably complex topography. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #NorthUist #WesternIsles
A view across Loch Euphort on North Uist in the Western Isles. The image shows the view on a sunny day, with a sculpture of what looks like a branch of a tree on a rock in the foreground. There is a stony area around the sculpture with a path leading to it. In the background is the loch, complete with islets. In the distance a rocky hill rises from the far shore.
November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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The Riverside Museum is a spectacular landmark on the River Clyde in Glasgow. Home to the Museum of Transport and Travel, the building itself, which opened in 2011, is every bit as fascinating as the exhibits it houses. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Glasgow
The Riverside Museum on the River Clyde in Glasgow. The view shows the exterior of the museum with a paved area in the foreground and the curved metal-clad body of the museum on the left of the structure. On the right is the spiky frontage overhanging its glass face which seems black and is highly reflective. The sky is mainly blue.
November 24, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Beautiful Glen Clova, which runs for some 18 miles north then north-west from Kirriemuir before finishing at Glendoll. It is the best known and most popular of the Angus Glens that cut into the southern flank of the Cairngorms. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Angus #GlenClova
Glen Clova. The image shows the broad glen in the foreground, narrowing in the distance as it encounters mountains. Which occupy much of the upper half of the frame, leaving a gap for the glen in the upper left beyond trees. In the right middle of the frame is a group of farm buildings with grassy fields this side of them. The scene is in sunlight.
November 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM