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PlaceTypeAsNotedInArea
PlaceTypeAsNotedInArea
Bass Rock
Beinn Askival Mountain
Ben Nevis Mountain
Clyde Walkway Hike
Corrieshalloch Gorge and Falls of Measach Canyon, Gorge
Corryvreckan Whirlpool, Maelstrom
Cuillin Hills
Dunbar Town
East Lothian
Duncansby Stacks Sea Stack
Edinburgh City
Falls of Glomach Waterfall
Glencoe
Great Glen and Loch Ness
Hebridean Princess
Isle of Islay Island
Loch Langavat
Loch Lomond
Lochaber Mountains Mountain Range
Mainland Island
New Lanark
North Gaulton Castle
Old Man of Storr
Siccar Point
St Abb's Head
St Kilda Archipelago
Suilven
The Grey Mare's Tail
The Old Man of Hoy Sea Stack
Traprain Law and North Berwick Law

Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1813/03/19 David Livingstone Born David Livingstone is born in a tenement building in the mill town of Blantyre, Scotland.
1963/01/03 The Beatles Performers The Beatles and the Alex Sutherland Sextet make a perfect fit at the Two Red Shoes, Elgin, Scotland. The Beatles' Winter 1963 Scotland Tour
1963/10/05 The Beatles Performers The Beatles 'cluich aig an Odeon, Glasgow, Scotland. The Beatles' Autumn 1963 in Scotland
1972/10/00 Robin Hardy Director "The Wicker Man" begins filming. The movie was shot in the towns of Gatehouse of Fleet, Newton Stewart, Kirkcudbright, the village of Creetown in Dumfries and Galloway, Plockton in Ross-shire. The Wicker Man
2013/10/00 Andy Scott Sculptor "The Kelpies" sculpture group by Andy Scott is installed near the junction of the Forth and Clyde Canal and the River Carron at The Helix Park in Grangemouth, Scotland. The Kelpies

Eat and Drink »

FoodTypeAsNotedInDescription
FoodTypeAsNotedInDescription
1488 Whisky Beer Beer
Aberdeen Angus Beef Meat Aberdeen Angus are bred in the counties of Aberdeenshire and Angus, Scotland.
Arbroath Smokie Fish Arbroath smokie, a type of smoked haddock, is a speciality of the town of Arbroath in Angus, Scotland.
Bannock Flatbread
Bitter and Twisted Beer
Bonchester Cheese Cheese
Broughton Old Jock Ale Beer
Broughton Scottish Oatmeal Stout Beer
Caledonian 80 Beer
Dark Island Beer
Deuchars IPA Beer
Farl Flatbread
Fish and Chips Fish Look for a chip shop or Chippy
Fraoch Heather Ale Beer
Haggis Offal Sausage
Innis and Gunn Oak Aged Beer Beer
Lorne Sausage Meat Sausage
Midnight Sun Beer
Oatcake
Ola Dubh Beer
Old Engine Oil Beer
Orkney Scottish Island Cheddar Cheese
Paradox Beer
Pikelet Pancake
Punk IPA Beer
Red MacGregor Beer
Rip Tide Beer
Roisin Beer
Schiehallion Beer
Scotch Pancake Pancake
Shortbread Cookie
Skull Splitter Beer
Soda Bread Bread
Stonner kebab Meat Sausage
Stornoway black pudding Cruor Sausage Stornoway black pudding is a blood sausage made in the Western Isles of Scotland.
Stornoway black pudding Cruor Sausage
Teviotdale Cheese Cheese
Tizer (soda pop) Soda Pop
Tokyo Beer
Trade Winds Beer
Traditional Ayrshire Dunlop Cheese
Traquair House Ale Beer
Traquair Jacobite Ale Beer
White pudding Meat Sausage



Geography »

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Hebrides Archipelago
Lochaber Mountains Mountain Range
Outer Hebrides Archipelago
Scottish Highlands Physiographic Province

Data »

Particulars for Scotland:
Locale Type Country

Data
Demonym: Scottish


Vicinage »

VicinageTypeAsNotedIn
East Lothian Scottish Counsel Area

Themes »
ThemeAsNotedIn
Great Scots!

Creative Works »

WorkTypeAsNotedInCreatorNote
Adjunct: An Undigest Florilegium Peter Manson
Braveheart Film Mel Gibson Randall Wallace "Braveheart" is set in 13th-century Scotland
How Late it Was, How Late Book James Kelman
Ivanhoe Book Walter Scott
Kidnapped (book) Book Robert Louis Stevenson "Kidnapped" begins in June, 1751.
Lanark: A Life in Four Books Book Alisdair Gray
Looking for the Possible Dance Book A L Kennedy
Morvern Callar Book Alan Warner
No Advantages (Short Story) Short Story
Alice Munro
Rob Roy Book Walter Scott
The 39 Steps (film) Film Alfred Hitchcock Setting
The Accidental Book Ali Smith
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle Book Tobias George Smollett
The Busconductor Hines Book James Kelman
The Case of the Constant Suicides Novel
John Dickson Carr "The Case of the Constant Suicides" is a multiple locked room whodunnit set in a Scottish highland castle.
The Crow Road Book Iain Banks
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Book Tobias George Smollett
The Girls of Slender Means Book Muriel Spark
The Man of Feeling Book Henry Mackenzie
The Master of Ballantrae Book
Robert Louis Stevenson The Master of Ballantrae begins in Scotland, 1745, the Jacobite Rising
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Book James Hogg
The Thirty-Nine Steps (book) Novel John Buchan Setting, May and June 1914
The Trick is to Keep Breathing Book Janice Galloway
The Wasp Factory Book Iain Banks
The Wicker Man Film Robin Hardy "The Wicker Man" was filmed on the Isle of Whithorn, Culzean Castle in Ayrshire and on a caravan site in Burrow Head.
Through the Veil (short story) Short Story
Arthur Conan Doyle One day - it was the first anniversary of their wedding - they had driven over together to see the excavations of the Roman Fort at Newstead. It was not a particularly picturesque spot.

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