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Scotland Travel Guide - History of Scotland Places to go in and around the UK. |
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![]() History of Scotland web sites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Do you love Scotland? Help us make the UK Travel Guide the very best resource for this and all UK travel and heritage related information. Suggest a website for inclusion in this category External Resources:Ancient Scotland Tour
Description of an extensive tour of 207 Scottish megalithic sites, a Millennium project to digitise Scotland's human history and material culture. http://www.stonepages.com/tour/ Dark Isle
Pictures and links for castles, towers, stone circles and Pict stones located in Scotland. Also Renaissance Faires and Celtic music. http://www.darkisle.com/ Historic Places to go in Scotland
An illustrated gazetteer of historic properties in Scotland, arranged by region. http://www.electricscotland.com/historic/index.html Historic Scotland
Web site for the body overseeing the preservation of historic buildings and proiperties throughout Scotland. Information on visiting Historic Scotland properties. http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ National Trust for Scotland
The National Trust for Scotland cares for places of historic interest or natural beauty. Properties and visitor information. http://www.nts.org.uk/ Scotland Genealogy
Genealogical research information about Scotland. http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/index.html Scottish Castles
Alphabetical List of Scottish Castles on the Web. http://www.castles.org/Chatelaine/list.htm Scottish Castles, Stately Homes, and Houses
A short personal description with many self-taken large images of 54 Castles, Stately Homes and Houses with links to appropriate picture sites. Interesting and some very rare places all over Britain. http://www.dlc.fi/%7Ehurmari/scotcastles.html Stones of Scotland
guide to the ancient stone monuments of Scotland, photographs (hi and low-resolution) of 182 ancient sites, descriptions, maps, 50 panoramic movies, a complete glossary and bibliography. http://www.stonepages.com/scotland/ Tartans of Scotland
Index of all Scottish tartans, history of Highland dress, and how to "read" a tartan. http://www.tartans.scotland.net/ Suggest a new website for this page |
HISTORY CORNERName the Historic attractionBritish Heritage AwardsCelebrate the best of British Heritage in our annual British History QuizThis writer, politician, and philosopher is best known for 'Novum Organum', and his 'Essays', published in 1597 and 1625 This Day in British History12 February, 1554 Lady Jane Grey executed Grey became famous as the 'Nine Days Queen', a pawn in the ambitions of the Earl of Northumberland Monarch MayhemThis king's men brought the Stone of Scone to London, where it stayed beneath the coronation chair for almost 7 centuries
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