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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 unusually complete Aikey Brae Stone Circle on Parkhouse Hill in Aberdeenshire; and a view of the three ferries that connect Kirkwall in Orkney to many of the the northern islands.

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In Focus

Scapa Distillery There was a time when Scapa Distillery was just a collection of buildings you glimpsed over Scapa Bay, a northern arm of Scapa Flow. Its most distinctive feature was (and from a distance, remains) the way the distillery's name was painted in black on white on the sea-facing wall of a warehouse in a distinctly Islay-esque fashion. That all changed in 2015, when Scapa Distillery opened its doors to visitors, and to tours of the distillery, for the first time in its history. ( More ...)

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On This Day

8 July 1296: John Balliol resigns his kingdom to Edward I at Montrose. Edward takes the Stone of Scone back to London after the Scottish nobility have signed their loyalty to him. He appoints the Earl of Surrey as Governor of Scotland.

8 July 1648: The moderate arm of the Covenanters come to a secret agreement with Charles I, now in English custody, and 20,000 Scots move into England at the start of the Second Civil War.

8 July 1823 : The death in Edinburgh of noted portrait painter Sir Henry Raeburn.

Featured Book

Book Cover Friend or Foe? by Ken Lussey (14 July 2025). A fast-paced thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. It’s late June 1943. Bob and Monique Sutherland’s journey home from Malta is interrupted in London to hear Soviet claims of a German spy. Back in Scotland, they travel with a Military Intelligence 11 team to Galloway to track down a ghost who may already have uncovered vital military secrets. When two Soviet agents arrive in Galloway to help, Bob and Monique need to decide if the spy exists, or whether he is a Soviet invention intended to lure MI11 into danger.
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Scottish Resources

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