Cycling in Scotland Books - Bike Scotland Book One: 40 great routes from Central Scotland

From Pocket Mountains, the publisher of Scotland's best-selling mountain walking guides, comes Bike Scotland: Book One by Fergal MacErlean. This beautifully designed little guide contains 40 bike routes, all starting and finishing at train stations in Central Scotland. Areas covered include Fife, Perthshire, Glasgow, Loch Lomond and the Clyde Islands, Edinburgh and the Lothians, and Falkirk and Stirling. Each route is accompanied by stunning photography, full-colour sketch maps and additional facts about the history, geology and wildlife of the area.

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Children's Activities in Perthshire

On holiday or going on holiday in Perthshire and not sure what to do with the kids. Click link below for some ideas.

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Scottish Whisky Trail - Perthshire

Fancy seeing how Scotland's national drink is produced and maybe sampling a few (for quality control obviously). In Perthshire you will find the smallest and oldest distilleries in Scotland.

Whisky distilleries in Perthshire

Highland Perthshire - Working Watermill

A working watermill in Perthshire that actually produces it's own flour to sell and to make their own bread, just as our ancestors did.

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Scottish Golfing Books - Scotland's Golf Courses: The Complete Guide

Scotland is the home of golf. Thousands visit the country every year to experience and explore the difficulties and delights of the greatest courses in the world, and most make the pilgrimage to St Andrews, where the game was first played in the fifteenth century. No matter how good, golfers never believe they have really played the game until they have attempted to master the subtle intricacies of at least one of Scotland's rich variety of courses, be it St Andrews or the other Open Championship venues of Carnoustie, Muirfield, Turnberry or Royal Troon. Or the beautiful Royal Dornoch, Gleneagles or Loch Lomond. Or any other of Scotland's golfing gems. Since Scotland's Golf Courses: The Complete Guide was first published in 1997, many new courses have been built in keeping with the finest Scottish traditions. Now this new updated edition, dedicated to the excellence of Scottish golf, provides all the essential information on more than 500 courses. It includes a directory of clubs, with a description of each course, how to get there, facilities, catering, green fees and hotel accommodation, plus photographs as well as diagrams of Scotland's most interesting and challenging holes. Scotland's Golf Courses: The Complete Guide is essential if you are golfing in Scotland.

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Scottish Golfing Books - St. Andrews and Golf

Offers an artist's perspective of historic St Andrews -- known throughout the golfing world as the 'birthplace of golf' and home of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club. Arthur Weaver, a premier golf artist for three decades, depicts many of the events and personalities which have influenced golf in St Andrews for more than 500 years. Also featured are the interesting sights and traditions of the town, which dates back to the Roman Empire. Interspersed among the hundreds of illustrations are exclusive essays by noted golf personalities. Discover the appeal of the 'auld grey toun' and why more famous golfers have set foot on the Old Course than on any other golf course in the world.

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Scottish Golfing Books - Scotland's Golf Courses: History and Landscape

This golf book takes a different approach to the usual coffee-table mix of scenic views and purple prose. Written by a geologist and geographer, it is a detailed survey of Scotland's golfing environment, exploring the unique features and terrain which make Scottish courses the most varied and challenging in the world. The acclaimed first edition of Scotland's Golf Courses described and assessed 425 courses, and became an essential handbook for the discerning golfer.

There are now over 500 golf courses in Scotland. The underlying structures of all of these are analysed in this new edition, and the invaluable region-by-region guide lists location, address, length, standard scratch score, restrictions on access, cost of a weekday round, date founded and course type. Scotland is the home of golf, and its courses are part of golfing history. The book includes an account of the history of the game in Scotland, and explains how the phenomenal growth of interest in golf has been driven by tourism, increased leisure time and media coverage.

There are many distinct types of golf courses: inland courses built over rocky outcrops, parklands and heather moorlands, and seaside courses, including the classic links which attract golfers from all over the world. The descriptions of the most important courses of each type are accompanied by course diagrams in colour, and many colour photographs illustrate key features described in the text. This is a book for the serious golfing enthusiast; it will enable him or her to get the most out of Scotland's rich golfing environment and heritage.

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