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Feature pages are added for Glencoe and North Lorn Folk Museum and St Mary's Church, Glencoe. A new page is added with images from the official Launch of The Stevenson Way. The feature pages for Glen Coe, Glencoe, Glencoe Visitor Centre and the Last Clansman Trail are revised, updated and given new images. New Book Reviews are added for A Sink of Atrocity, Crime in 19th Century Dundee by Malcolm Archibald, Halcyon in the Hebrides by Bob Orrell, Scotland, Mapping the Nation by Chris Fleet, Charles W. J. Withers & Margaret Wilkes, Scotland's Countryside Parks Volume 1, West, by Tom Prentice, and Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Life by Peter Pininsk.
Feature pages are added for Birdoswald Roman Fort, Housesteads Roman Fort, Chesters Roman Fort, Corbridge Roman Town, Lanercost Priory, Piper Sike & Leahill Turrets, Carlisle, Carlisle Cathedral, Carlisle Castle, Cumbria's Military Museum, Beamish, Isle of Skye, Isle of Mull, Kintyre, Cowal, Isle of Arran and Isle of Bute. New areas are added for Cowal & Bute and Mid Argyll & Kintyre. Area maps are added to all the area main pages across the site, showing areas covered, main settlements and surrounding or linking areas. New Book Reviews are added for The King's Park Irregulars: An Abigail Craig Mystery by David Wilson, The Coming of the Unicorn: Scottish Folk Tales for Children by Duncan Williamson, Sporting Scots: How Scotland Brought Sport to the World by John K. V. Eunson, Mary Queen of Scots Way by Paul Prescott, Baffies' Easy Munro Guide, Southern Highlands by Ralph Storer and The Rob Roy Way, From Drymen to Pitlochry, 3rd Edition by Jacquetta Megarry.
Feature pages are added for Hexham Abbey, Brunton Turret, Banks East Turret and the Battle of Otterburn. New areas are added covering Speyside and the Cairngorms. New Category Indexes are added for Roman Sites and English Heritage properties. The feature pages for the Cairngorms National Park and Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park are revised and updated. The existing Oban area is slightly enlarged to form an area covering Oban & Lorn. The Existing Loch Lomond area is expanded to form an area covering Loch Lomond & The Trossachs. The existing Stirling and Callander areas are combined with part of the Killin & Aberfeldy area to form a single area covering Stirling & Central Scotland. The existing Pitlochry, Crieff & Auchterarder and Perth areas are combined with part of the Killin & Aberfeldy area to form a single area covering Perthshire. The existing Aviemore and Kingussie areas are combined with a mirror of part of the Speyside area to form a single area covering Aviemore & Badenoch. The existing Strathpeffer & Dingwall, Cromarty and Inverness areas are combined with part of the Nairn area to form a single area covering Inverness, Nairn & Cromarty Firth. The existing Elgin area is combined with part of the Nairn area and a mirror of the Speyside area to form a single area covering Moray. The existing Ullapool, Gairloch & Poolewe and Lochcarron areas are combined to form a single area covering Wester Ross. The existing Lochinver, Durness & Tongue and Wick & Thurso areas, and most of the Lairg Dornoch and Tain area, are combined to form a single area covering Caithness & Sutherland. The existing Lanark and Glasgow areas are combined to form a single area covering Glasgow & Clyde Valley. The existing Aberdeen, Ballater, Braemar and Banff areas are combined to form a single area covering Aberdeen & Aberdeenshire. The existing Dundee area is combined with parts of the existing Montrose and Blairgowrie areas to form a new area covering Angus & Dundee. The existing St Andrews and Dunfermline areas are combined to form a single area covering the Kingdom of Fife. The existing North Skye, South Skye and Kyle of Lochalsh areas are combined to form a single area covering Skye & Lochalsh. The existing Edinburgh, Linlithgow and Dunbar areas are combined to form a new area covering Edinburgh & Lothians. New Book Reviews are added for Piers of the Hebrides & Western Isles by Alistair Deayton, The Incomers by Moira McPartlin and Roman Camps in Britain by Rebecca H. Jones.
Feature pages are added for Lindisfarne Castle, Lindisfarne Priory, Osborne's Fort, St Mary's Church and the The Museum of Fire. A new English Borders Area is added covering Northumberland and Newcastle, plus parts of Cumbria around Carlisle. A new English Borders Index is added to the index maps. The existing Eyemouth, Jedburgh, Hawick and Peebles areas are combined to form a new area covering the Scottish Borders. The existing Moffat, Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Newton Stewart and Stranraer areas are combined to form a new area covering Dumfries & Galloway. The existing Ayr and Kilmarnock areas are combined to form a new area covering Ayrshire. The feature pages for Edinburgh and James Braidwood are revised, updated and given new images. New Book Reviews are added for Dark Blood by Stuart MacBride, The Caithness Influence by Valerie Campbell, It Shouldn't Happen to a Midwife by Jane Yeadon, Haunted Dundee by Geoff Holder, Ribbon of Wildness: Discovering the Watershed of Scotland by Peter Wright and Blind Eye by Stuart MacBride. All external links across the site are checked to ensure they are unbroken and that they continue to direct visitors to the correct destinations.
The feature pages for Abbotsford, Dunnottar Castle, Gourdon and Stonehaven are revised, updated and given new images. New Book Reviews are added for Birthdays for the Dead by Stuart MacBride, Flesh House by Stuart MacBride, Dying Light by Stuart MacBride, Broken Skin by Stuart MacBride, The Covenanters by Claire Watts and No Boat Required: Exploring Tidal Islands by Peter Caton.
Feature pages are added for Princes Street Gardens, St Rule's Tower, St Andrews Cathedral Museum and Deskford Church. The feature pages for Tarbert, Bathgate Highland Games, Edinburgh, Captain's Bar, St Andrews Cathedral, St Andrews Castle, St Andrews, Howden House, Linlithgow Palace, Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway, The Forth Bridge, National Museum of Scotland, Killin and the Breadalbane Folklore Centre are revised, updated and given new images. We change our Ring of Brogar page to reflect the more commonly used name, Ring of Brodgar. New Book Reviews are added for Scotland's Cinemas by Bruce Peter, From Comet to Cal Mac: Two Centuries of Hebridean & Clyde Shipping by Donald E Meek & Bruce Peter, Inverkeithing & North Queensferry Through Time by Eric Simpson & George Robertson, Glasgow with a Flourish by Michael Meighan, The Munros in Winter by Martin Moran, Cold Granite by Stuart MacBride, The Encyclopaedia of Scottish Football by Phil H. Jones & David W. Potter, The Lewis Man by Peter May, The Haunted by Niki Valentine and Across the Bridge by Morag Joss.
Feature pages are added for Clan Macpherson Museum, Dalwhinnie Distillery, Benromach Distillery, Speyside Cooperage, The Macallan, Balvenie Distillery, Glenfiddich Distillery, Auchindoun Castle, Edinburgh Foodies Festival, Cardhu Distillery, Glenlivet Distillery, Cragganmore Distillery, Glenfarclas Distillery, Drumin Castle, Strathisla Distillery, Glendronach Distillery, Glenglassaugh Distillery, Findlater Castle, Glen Grant Distillery, Glen Grant Garden and Rothes Castle. The feature pages for St Giles' Cathedral, Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh Castle: Lower Castle, Edinburgh Castle: Upper Castle, National War Museum, Culross, Anstruther, Scottish Fisheries Museum, St Monans, Inveraray, Dalwhinnie, Craigellachie, Edinburgh Mela Festival, Dufftown, Balvenie Castle, Glen Moray Distillery, Sandend and Rothes are revised, updated and given new images. The Grantown on Spey and Dufftown areas are combined into a single Speyside Area. New Book Reviews are added for California by Ray Banks, Gun by Ray Banks, Killing Mum by Allan Guthrie, The Liberation of Celia Kahn by J. David Simons, The One That Got Away by Zoë Wicomb, The Lost Sister by Russel D. McLean, The Good Son by Russel D. McLean, The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin, The Darkness Below by Rod Macdonald and The Little Book of Glasgow by Geoff Holder.
Feature pages are added for Grampian Transport Museum, Royal Lochnagar Distillery, Summerlee Industrial Museum, the Riverside Museum and The Tall Ship. A hotel review is added for Macdonald Pittodrie House Hotel. A dining review is added for Macdonald Pittodrie House Hotel. The feature pages for Craigievar Castle, Alford, RAF Leuchars Airshow, Edinburgh Festival, The Fringe, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo and the Edinburgh Festivals' Cavalcade are revised, updated and given new images. New Book Reviews are added for Captain Basil Hall, RN by James McCarthy, The Scottish Junior Cup 1946-1975 by Tom Purdie, Viking Gold by V. Campbell, Take it to the Bridge: Dundee's Rock & Pop History by Lorraine Wilson, Sandison's Scotland by Bruce Sandison, Jules Verne's Scotland: In Fact and Fiction by Ian Thompson and The Life and Death of St. Kilda by Tom Steel.
Feature pages are added for Glen Garioch Distillery, Craigievar Castle, Kinglassie, Leslie, Lochgelly, Cardenden and St Cuthbert's Church. A hotel review is added for The Marcliffe Hotel. A dining review is added for The Marcliffe Hotel. The feature pages for Alford and Hippolyte Blanc are revised, updated and given new images. New Book Reviews are added for Scotland Is Not for the Squeamish by Bill Watkins The Stuarts in Italy, 1719-1766: A Royal Court in Permanent Exile by Edward Corp, Prelude to Everest by Ian R. Mitchell and George Rodway, The Art of the Picts by George Henderson and Isabel Henderson, The Loner by Quintin Jardine, Carspotting: The Real Adventures of Irvine Welsh by Sandy Macnair, Peebles Through Time by Liz Hanson and Edinburgh Street Furniture by David Brandon.
Feature pages are added for Muckairn Church, Kilchrenan Parish Church and Oban Distillery. Hotel reviews are added for Loch Melfort Hotel and Taychreggan Hotel. Dining reviews are added for Loch Melfort Hotel and Taychreggan Hotel. The feature pages for Seton Collegiate Church, Greyfriars Kirk, East Fortune Airshow, National Museum of Flight, National Museum of Scotland and Royal Highland Show are revised, updated and given new images. New Book Reviews are added for A Year in the Life of the Cairngorms by Chris Townsend, Steadfast Boats and Fisher People by Gloria Wilson, Ayr United Miscellany by Duncan Carmichael, The Barlinnie Story by Robert Jeffrey, The Darkest Walk by Malcolm Archibald, Peace, Love & Petrol Bombs by D. D. Johnston, Picture Her Dead by Lin Anderson, Testament of a Witch by Douglas Watt, Isles at the Edge of the Sea by Jonny Muir, Orkney & Shetland Islands by Alan Murphy, Gentle Johnny Ramensky by Robert Jeffrey, Boswell's Bus Pass by Stuart Campbell and Scotland Highlands & Islands Footprint Handbook by Alan Murphy.
Feature pages are added for American Monument, Finlaggan, Loch Gruinart Nature Reserve, Natural History Visitor Centre, Kildalton Cross, Kilnave Chapel & Cross, Kilchoman Crosses & Cemetery, Kilchiaran Chapel, Kilnaughton Chapel, The Round Church, St Kiaran's Church, St John's Church, Portnahaven Parish Church, Lennoxlove House, Museum of Islay Life, Islay Airport, Islay Ales, Bowmore, Bridgend, Portnahaven, Port Wemyss, Port Charlotte, Port Ellen, Port Askaig, Ardbeg Distillery, Bruichladdich Distillery, Bunnahabhain Distillery, Caol Ila Distillery, Kilchoman Distillery, Lagavulin Distillery, Laphroaig Distillery, Bowmore Distillery and the Islay Ferry. New Book Reviews are added for Greyfriars Bobby by Jan Bondeson, Soldier's Game by James Killgore, Crucible of Secrets by Shona MacLean, Grievous Angel by Quintin Jardine, Tretower to Clyro: Essays by Karl Miller, St Andrews Through Time by Helen Cook, An Ayrshire Postcard Album by Frank Beattie, Montrose Through Time by Tom Valentine and The Final Curtsey by Margaret Rhodes.
Feature pages are added for Islay, Jura, Jura Ferry, Craighouse, Isle of Jura Distillery, Jura Parish Church, Kilearnadil, Jura: The Road North, Linlithgow, Glenorchy Church and Bonnybridge. A hotel review is added for Crieff Hydro. A dining review is added for Crieff Hydro. The Stirling Castle pages are revised, updated and given new images, including those for the Palace, the Great Hall, the King's Old Buildings, the Chapel Royal, the Forework, the Outer Close, the Outer Defences, and the Nether Bailey. The feature pages for Linlithgow Palace, St Michael's Church and Suilven are revised, updated and given new images. New Book Reviews are added for An Experiment in Compassion by Des Dillon, Galoshins Remembered by Emily B. Lyle, 100 Scotsman Walks by Robin Howie, The Traction Engine in Scotland by Alexander Hayward, The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women by Elizabeth Ewan, It's a Long Way to Muckle Flugga by W.R. Mitchell, The East Highland Way: Fort William to Aviemore by Kevin Langan, On Fire with Fergie by Stuart Donald, Edinburgh Murders and Misdemeanours by David Brandon & Alan Brooke and Glencoe by John Sadler.