Discover Scotland: Historical Heritage- Falkland (P-1)

 

Hello dear Steemians,

 

While we were exploring our local Heritage recently we came across a beautiful historical place that is located very close to our place, it is called Falkland and with a car about 25-30 min depending on traffic. One of the days last week we decided to visit it and luckily had very nice weather too.

If you are interested here is the Google Map

 

Falkland: Woodlands

 

Falkland is one of the little villages but previously was a royal Burgh with Woodlands, that is why the history goes back to 16th century, many of the buildings are very old but due to the materials used like sandstone they are still in great conditions. The Falkland Palace was a royal residence of Stuarts Kings and Queens, we are here talking about Scottish Royals. The place is located at the foot of two hills Lomond Hill and Owe of Fife. Historically the royal families loved hunting and the area was famous of its deer and bear.

We were glad that now the place and woodlands is open for visitors it is like any other parks, you do not pay anything to enter it.

The first what you see is that bridge with a little river flowing. Due to the nature of the stone it looking like the same how it was centuries ago, you still can walk and step on the same stones like the Royals in the past, that reminded me the movie "Outlander" when the main character while being at Highlands Stonehenge found herself back in time once she touched the stones. I must confess nothing happened when we touched the stones of bridge :)

 

 
Here is the building of Falkland Estate, it is like an information point, advertisement, some Art exhibition but also cafe. We arrived too early, that is why cafe was closed but we came to visit the woodland and not for drinking coffee so made couple of pictures and went further.

 

 

 

Once you are in the beginning of your journey, there are two paths to go, one is toward a hill, it is much sunlight and trees are small and area is flat.

 

 

The other side was towards woods with waterfalls, evergreen trees and hills. Of course, we have chosen that way and just shortly after we started our journey, it was a magnificent Burgh in front of us, unfortunately we were not able to come closer, because it is now a Private School so only the school children and authorised personnel is allowed.

When searching for the building we found that it is a House of Falkland that was build in 19th century and was home of John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute. The building was designed by William Burn the architect in neo Jacobean style built 1834-1844. The building is impressive, the chimney in such twisted shapes, balconies and windows. Luckily the buildings survived time and wars.

 
We will continue with our journey in next post, all photos were done by @myskye

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