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List of historic sites in Scotland. There are thousands of historic sites and attractions in Scotland. These include Neolithic Standing stones and Stone Circles, Bronze Age settlements, Iron Age Brochs and Crannogs, Pictish stones, Roman forts and camps, Viking settlements, Mediaeval castles, and early Christian settlements.
World Heritage Sites in Scotland. The seven existing sites are mapped to the right and described in detail below. They are: St. Kilda. Edinburgh Old Town and New Town. The Heart of Neolithic Orkney. New Lanark. The Antonine Wall. The Forth Bridge.
The Kelpies. Coordinates: 56.0191°N 3.7553°W. The Kelpies. The Kelpies are a pair of monumental steel horse-heads between the Scottish towns of Falkirk and Grangemouth. They stand next to the M9 motorway and form the eastern gateway of the Forth and Clyde Canal, which meets the River Carron here. Each head is 30 metres (98 ft) high.
St Andrews (Latin: S. Andrea (s); [3] Scots: Saunt Aundraes; [4] Scottish Gaelic: Cill Rìmhinn, pronounced [kʰʲɪʎˈrˠiː.ɪɲ]) [5] is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, 10 miles (16 kilometres) southeast of Dundee and 30 miles (50 kilometres) northeast of Edinburgh. St Andrews had a recorded population of 16,800 as of 2011 ...
Historic sites in Scotland (7 C, 2 P) Houses in Scotland (11 C, 3 P, 1 F) L. Landmark Trust properties in Scotland (7 P) Landmarks in Scotland (3 C, 3 P) M.
Edinburgh (/ ˈɛdɪnbərə / ⓘ ED-in-bər-ə, [ 12 ][ 13 ][ 14 ]Scots: [ˈɛdɪnbʌrə]; Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Èideann [t̪un ˈeːtʲən̪ˠ]) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. The city is located in southeast Scotland and is bounded to the north by the Firth of Forth estuary and to the south by the Pentland ...
Scotland. 57°40′16″N 2°29′49″W / 57.671°N 2.497°W / 57.671; -2.497. Macduff (Scottish Gaelic: An Dùn) is a town in the Banff and Buchan area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is situated on Banff Bay and faces the town of Banff across the estuary of the River Deveron. Macduff is a former burgh and was the last place in the ...
Length. 7,305 yards (6,680 m) Course record. 61; Ross Fisher (2017) The Old Course at St Andrews, also known as the Old Lady or the Grand Old Lady, [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] is considered the oldest golf course [ 5 ][ 6 ] in the world. It is a public course over common land in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland and is held in trust by the St Andrews Links Trust ...