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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 the the lovely village of Pennan, made famous by the film "Local Hero", on the north Aberdeenshire coast; and a view south along the island of Raasay, with Skye in the distance.

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In Focus

The Riverside Museum Glasgow's magnificent Riverside Museum stands on the north bank of the River Clyde at Glasgow Harbour, immediately to the east of where the Clyde is joined by the River Kelvin. It is easily accessed via the Clydeside Expressway and is well served by public transport. The Riverside Museum is home to Scotland's Museum of Transport and Travel and the iconic building provides a fitting home for its superb collections which range from steam trains to bicycles. ( More ...)

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On This Day

29 June 1559: John Knox preaches a sermon in St Giles' in Edinburgh that can be regarded as the real starting point of the Reformation of the Church in Scotland.

29 June 1751: The birth near Kilmarnock of William Roxburgh, a doctor and botanist who did much to promote the science of botany in India.

29 June 1995: The first spirit legally distilled on the Isle of Arran since 1836 flows through the spirit safe of the Isle of Arran Distillery in Lochranza.

30 June 1688: A group of Protestant nobles asks William of Orange to travel to England to overthrow King James VII/II.

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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