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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 a view of Easdale Island, with the Island of Seil and the village of Ellenabeich in the background; and the wonderful Castle of Mey, the most northerly castle in mainland Scotland.

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In Focus

Sandend Sandend is perhaps the smallest of the many fishing villages along the north-facing coasts of Moray and Aberdeenshire. It is also one of the most attractive. The village lies just three miles east of Cullen on the west side of the Scattery Burn as it flows into the Moray Firth at the west end of the expanse of sand lining Sandend Bay. This extends about half a mile to the east, the far end of the bay being marked by the mouth of the Burn of Fordyce. ( More ...)

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On This Day

17 February 1688: James Renwick, leader of the remaining Covenanter Presbyterian rebels, is executed in Edinburgh.

17 February 1796: The death of James Macpherson, the poet best known as the translator (or more likely the author) of the Ossian cycle of poems.

17 February 1913: The birth in Rutherglen of Alastair Borthwick, a journalist, broadcaster and author remembered primarily for two very different books, each of which remains a classic in its field.

Featured Book

Book Cover The Danger of Life by Ken Lussey (12 August 2024). It’s October 1942. Group Captain Robert Sutherland's first week in charge of Military Intelligence 11's operations in Scotland is not going smoothly. An investigation into a murder at the Commando Basic Training Centre in the Highlands take an even darker turn that draws Bob in personally. He is also trying to discover who was behind an attempt to steal an advanced reconnaissance aircraft; and then Monique Dubois in MI5 asks for his help with an operation of hers in Glasgow that has gone badly wrong.
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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