Gascon Ha’
11th April 2022, Peter and Sian visit the ruins of Orchard and the last remains of Gascon Hall. Perthshire Courier, 6 July 1987: A schoolboy adventure, September 1884: Newspaper report, … Continue reading Gascon Ha’
Tag: William Wallace
Stockwell Street
The Book of Scottish Anecdote shares this story: If you look again at the [above] Victorian photograph of Stockwell Street, you will see that the road leading from it is … Continue reading Stockwell Street
Wallace Road
What follows is some of the archive material that I found that relates to the WALLACE Road: the ancient high road through the Ochil hills:
Cleikum Inn
The Cleikum Inn, near Auchentiber, is marked on the 1860 Ordinance Survey map on the right hand side of the road near Bentfauld farm. The 1895 does not name it … Continue reading Cleikum Inn
The Wallace Yew
1856, Ordinance Survey of Ayrshire: “A wide-spreading [Yew] tree, evidently of great [age] situated near the top of [Keirs] Glen. It is said that [the] Scotch hero Wallace concealed himself … Continue reading The Wallace Yew