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Hello, and welcome to Undiscovered Scotland, the ultimate online guide to Scotland. The site is a combination of visitor guide, accommodation listing and business directory, and aims to show you what the country is really like. We also offer website design, maintenance and hosting services.

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Header Slides

Today's header slides show the view west from McCaig's Tower in Oban, showing the town itself, the island of Kerrera, and the Isle of Mull; and Dunmore Pineapple, one of Scotland's most remarkable buildings.

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In Focus

Castletown The village of Castletown lies a short distance inland from the southern corner of Dunnet Bay, five miles east of Thurso. Dunnet Bay faces north-west and is protected to the north by the bulk of Dunnet Head. The bay's south-eastern side is bounded by a beautiful two mile long beach backed by high dunes. The southern end of the beach expires at the mouth of a stream, once used to power the huge, but now ruinous, Castletown Mill. ( More ...)

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On This Day

22 May 1242: The Church of St Michael of Linlithgow is reconsecrated by the Bishop of St Andrews.

22 May 1859: The birth in Edinburgh of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the highly successful author best known for creating Sherlock Holmes.

22 May 1915: 226 people are killed and 246 more are injured in a rail crash at Quintinshill, near Gretna Green.

23 May 1701: Captain William Kidd is hung at Wapping for murder and piracy.

Featured Book

Book Cover Bloody Orkney by Ken Lussey (29 June 2021). Bloody Orkney is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland during World War Two. It’s November 1942. Bob Sutherland, Monique Dubois and the Military Intelligence 11 team fly in to review security in Orkney, home to one of the most important and most heavily defended naval anchorages in the world. But an unidentified body has been found. It becomes clear that powerful men have things they’d rather keep hidden and MI11’s arrival threatens the status quo. Then Bob stumbles over a ghost from his past and things get far too personal.
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Scottish Resources

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