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2024-03-28T09:17:27+00:00text/html2007-07-15T22:25:36+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/14453A Duncan56.090073 -6.189445NR3996 : Colonsay House Gardens
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text/html2007-07-15T22:21:24+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/14453A Duncan56.090073 -6.189445NR3996 : Rhododendron in Colonsay House Gardens
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The gardens were planted in the 1930s and cover 20 acres. They are noted for their rhododendrons but there is a wide variety of plants including sub-tropicals as the climate is mild.
text/html2007-07-15T21:44:11+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/14453A Duncan56.924705 -3.171319NO2882 : Black Burn Looking up Loch Muick
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The path from the Spital to Black Burn is a good walking path but it becomes a bit more rocky beyond this point.text/html2007-06-26T22:20:35+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/14453A Duncan57.190897 -2.471375NJ7111 : Uphill from Shaggart
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text/html2007-06-23T17:18:23+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/14453A Duncan56.057912 -3.230815NT2385 : St Columba's Parish Church and The Parsonage
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In 1601 in St Columba's there was a meeting of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. King James VI was in attendance and at this meeting it was decided to pursue a new authorised bible, later know as the King James Bible.
The Parsonage with its stepped gables was built in 1854 by George Hay Forbes, an Episcopalian minister in the town. It was built as a school and a home. George Hay Forbes was a remarkable preacher, linguist and scholartext/html2007-06-23T16:52:47+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/14453A Duncan56.064993 -3.241481NT2286 : West Burntisland and The Binn
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The red patch on the shore line is the "red mud" left from the extraction of alumina from bauxite. The "aluminium works" as it was known was built in 1917 and closed in 2002. The site of the factory, the lighter patch to the right has been cleared and a large housing development is being built.
The Binn in the background is a volcanic plug.text/html2007-06-23T16:14:37+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/14453A Duncan57.177982 -3.452924NJ1210 : Gorge at The Castle
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Slopes of Carn na Ruabraich to righttext/html2007-06-23T16:09:55+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/14453A Duncan57.177984 -3.452758NJ1210 : Gorge at The Castle
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text/html2007-05-16T12:31:47+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/14453A Duncan57.188208 -2.515516NJ6810 : View from path from Sauchen to West Muirton
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