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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 are of Millport and its harbour on the island of Great Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde; and a view of Lochinch Castle, the castle to which Castle Kennedy Gardens belong, in Dumfries & Galloway.

Clickable Map of Scotland

Clickable Map of Scotland

In Focus

Edinburgh Festival Edinburgh is a city of festivals. "The Edinburgh Festival" is the name usually applied to the collection of festivals taking place in the city from the end of July to the first week in September each year, a period during which Edinburgh becomes home to the world's biggest arts festival and more than doubles its normal population. Book, film, jazz and multicultural festivals sit alongside the Edinburgh International Festival and the Fringe. ( More ...)

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On This Day

7 August 1548: Five year-old Mary Queen of Scots sets sail for France to escape Henry VIII's English troops.

7 August 1894: The first train arrives in Fort William on the newly opened West Highland Line.

7 August 1936: Air services begin from Barra Airport, the only beach airport anywhere in the world to be used for scheduled airline services.

8 August 1296: The Stone of Scone, or the Stone of Destiny, is removed from Scone Abbey by King Edward I of England.

Featured Book

Book Cover Hide and Seek by Ken Lussey (26 May 2023). A fast-paced thriller set in Stirling Castle and more widely across Scotland during World War Two. It’s April 1943. Medical student Helen Erickson is followed from London to her aunt’s farm in Perthshire. What do her pursuers want? Meanwhile Monique Dubois is attending a secret meeting at Stirling Castle when an old adversary is murdered in a chilling echo of a dark episode in the castle’s history. Bob Sutherland and the MI11 team are called in and discover that almost everyone who knew the victim had a motive. Then Helen disappears.
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Scottish Resources

English Borders Index South Central Index Edinburgh Index Fife Index West Central Index Argyll Index Glasgow & Stirling Index Western Isles Index Western Isles Index West Highlands Index Argyll Index East Lothian Index Angus Index West Central Index South-West Index North Central Index Aberdeenshire Index Sutherland Index Caithness Index Orkney Index Shetland Index