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The Tayroots area is ideal touring territory - and family history researchers will know that modern county boundaries are less important than ancient parish ones. There is a natural touring synergy between the counties of Perth & Kinross, Angus, Fife, and Aberdeenshire, which is very rewarding for the visitor. In the time of your ancestors, families often moved to where the work was, from farm to farm, and from rural village to the city.
Your family may be connected to a series of locations, and your search may lead you to some very out-of-the-way places, sometimes in the most lovely settings.
Enjoy your touring around all the more by making sure you see the best of the area - take in the fascinating historic sites, visitor centres, museums, galleries and eateries along the way.
The Scottish Crannog Centre features a unique reconstruction of an early Iron Age loch-dwelling.
This authentic visitor site is based on the excavation evidence from the 2,600 year old site of 'Oakbank Crannog', one of the 18 crannogs preserved in Loch Tay, Scotland. A visit to the Centre includes a self-guided exhibition, a guided crannog tour, and 'hands-on' ancient crafts and technology demonstrations.
The Black Watch Museum is housed at historic Balhousie Castle. The Castle is set in its own beautiful gardens and grounds, which are home to a number of monuments and tributes to Black Watch men. It is situated close to the centre of Perth, beside the parkland walks of the North Inch on the banks of The River Tay. A visit to the ancestral home of The Black Watch brings this glorious Regiment's past vibrantly to life.
The only Royal Palace in the care of the National Trust for Scotland,
Falkland Palace is an impressive Renaissance building set in the heart of the town at the foot of the Lomond Hills. Built by James IV and James V between 1450 and 1541 the Palace was a country residence of the Stuart monarchs of Scotland for over 200 years. Lush green lawns, colourful herbaceous borders and many unusual shrubs and trees complete the setting for this memorable property.
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Scottish Fisheries Museum is situated on the harbour front in Anstruther, in the heart of the Fife fishing community, the Scottish Fisheries Museum tells the story of fishing in Scotland and its people from earliest times to the present. Since it was opened in 1969 the Museum has grown in size and in the range of its galleries.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon is the pen-name of James Leslie Mitchell, one of the outstanding figures in Scottish Literature, word famous as the author of the trilogy of novels known as A Scots Quair. The author is celebrated at the Lewis Grassic Gibbon Centre in the Mearns countryside just north of Angus. Born on 13 February 1901, Leslie Mitchell's background and upbringing were steeped in the traditional crofting life of the north-east of Scotland.
Aberdeenshire Farming Museum at Mintlaw offers a glimpse of rural life in the county in times past, and offers award-winning displays & audio-visual shows, guided tours with costumed guides, country cooking and special events and exhibitions.