Attraction in Scotland
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New Lanark is a UNESCO World Heritage Site on the banks of the River Clyde in South Lanarkshire, a planned cotton mill community of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth…
Glenshee Ski Centre Cairngorms Perth and Kinross • PH10 7QEGlenshee Ski Centre on the slopes of Cairnwell in the Cairngorm Mountains between Braemar and Blairgowrie is the largest ski area in Britain, a network of runs on four mountains…
The Falkirk Wheel Falkirk • FK1 4RSThe Falkirk Wheel in central Scotland is a rotating boat lift connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal, built as the centrepiece of the Millennium Link project to…
Melrose Abbey Borders Scottish Borders • TD6 9LGMelrose Abbey in the Scottish Borders is the finest Gothic ruin in Scotland, a Cistercian monastery of the twelfth century rebuilt in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries after…
Inverewe Garden Highland Highland • IV22 2LGInverewe Garden near Poolewe in Wester Ross is the most extraordinary horticultural achievement in Scotland, a garden of over 2,500 plant species created by Osgood Mackenzie from…
Glenfinnan Viaduct Highland • PH37 4LTThe Glenfinnan Viaduct is the most celebrated piece of railway engineering in Scotland and one of the most famous in the world, a concrete viaduct of twenty-one arches carrying…
Handa Island Seabirds Highland • IV27 4SSHanda Island off the northwest Sutherland coast near Scourie is one of the finest seabird colonies in Britain, a small uninhabited island accessible by ferry from Tarbet whose…
Alisa Craig Castle ScotlandThe coordinates 55.25003, -5.11285 place this location in the Firth of Clyde, corresponding to Ailsa Craig, a remarkable volcanic island and nature reserve rising dramatically…
Boddin Point Lime Kilns AngusThe Boddin Point Lime Kilns stand as striking industrial monuments on the rugged Angus coastline, remnants of a once-thriving lime-burning industry that served the agricultural…
Maeshowe Orkney Orkney Islands • KW16 3HFMaeshowe in the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site is one of the finest Neolithic chambered cairns in Europe, a passage tomb of approximately 2800 BC whose combination…
The Kelpies Falkirk Falkirk • FK2 7ZTThe Kelpies are two enormous steel horse heads rising thirty metres from the Forth and Clyde Canal at the Helix Park near Falkirk, the largest equine sculptures in the world and…
Muckle FluggaMuckle Flugga is a small, dramatic rocky islet situated at the very northern tip of Unst, which is itself the northernmost of the Shetland Islands. Perched atop its wave-lashed…
Falkirk Wheel Falkirk • FK1 4RSThe Falkirk Wheel is one of the most remarkable pieces of engineering in Britain, a unique rotating boat lift connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal at Falkirk…
Cairngorm Mountain Railway Highland • PH22 1RBCairngorm Mountain at 1,245 metres is the sixth highest summit in Britain and the highest peak within the Cairngorm massif that forms the core of the Cairngorms National Park in…
Loch Lomond Bird of Prey Centre West DunbartonshireThe Loch Lomond Bird of Prey Centre is a falconry and raptor display attraction located in the Trossachs and Loch Lomond region of Scotland, offering visitors the opportunity to…