Looking for somewhere to visit in the UK. We have highlighted
the most popular locations in the UK below. There are also a selection of Farm house
bed and breakfast and other farm based accommodations for you to choose from.
Alloa Golf Club View website
Founded in 1891, Alloa Golf Club is a beautiful course set amongst 150 acres of rolling parkland beneath the Ochil Hills.
This 6200 yard, par 70 championship length course will challenge the best golfers whilst offering great enjoyment to the average player.
Look forward to playing the challenging finishing holes 15 to 18. These consist of 2 long par 3's, a demanding long par 4 and a par 5 which will test any golfer's ability - and watch out for that ditch just in front of the seventeenth green!
Castle Campbell View website
Castle Campbell is located at the head of Dollar Glen, immediately to the north of Dollar. There is a 16 space car park at the end of the public road, across the valley from the castle. Another, larger, car park can be found a few hundred yards back down the Glen towards Dollar. There is no coach or bus access.
Sitting in lofty isolation and overlooked by the Ochil Hills, Castle Campbell became the chief lowland stronghold of the Campbell clan, upon whose members the successive titles of Earl, Marquis and Duke of Argyll were bestowed.
The castle itself was designed to serve three main purposes. Firstly to provide adequate defence, though the castle would never have been able to survive artillery attack. The entrance gateway was strengthened sufficiently to ward off a lightly armed raid but no more. Secondly, the castle was a statement of the lord's wealth and power, and as such should be an imposing sight. Castle Campbell certainly fulfils this function, even today.
Menstrie Castle View website
Menstrie Castle is a three-storey castellated house that was home to a branch of the Clan MacAlister and was the birthplace of Sir William Alexander, later 1st Earl of Stirling. The property is over 400 years old.
Sauchie Tower View website
Sauchie Tower is a mid-15th century four storey square keep crowned by a
parapet carried on individual corbels with open rounds at each angle.
The arched entrance is at ground floor level in the centre of the west wall. leads along a short passage into the vaulted cellar. There is a small guardroom on the right of the passage, opposite the turnpike stair rises in the north-west angle, it
ends, above the parapet, with a hexagonal caphouse with a conical stone roof.
The cellar was split by an entresol floor at the spring of the vault. The lower section was a storeroom, there is a draw well in the south wall and a small prison in the west. The upper level was possibly a lower hall, the kitchen is contained in the narrow mural chamber in the west wall at this level.
Friday 25 May 2012
