Beautiful Scottish Architecture

Summertime in  one of Scotland's most picturesque towns, the history of the Royal Borough of Culross, situated across The River Forth Estuary from Bo’ness. Scotland’s most complete example of a burgh of the 17th and 18th centuries.

The National Trust for Scotland has helped with the sensitive renovation of the whitewashed, crow-stepped-gabled and red-tiled buildings that so delight the locals and visitors alike.

Notable buildings include Culross Town House (formerly used as a courthouse and prison), the 16th century ochre-coloured Palace locates central to the town with its beautifully reconstructed period garden, complete with herbs, fruit and vegetables, and just outside the town is the 18th-century Dunimarle Castle.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, the town was a centre of the coal mining industry. Sir George Bruce of Carnock, who built the splendid 'Palace' of Culross and whose elaborate family monument stands in the north transept of the Abbey church, established a coal mine at Culross in 1575 and in 1595 constructed the Moat Pit by which it became the first coal mine in the world to extend under the sea.

Our visit to observe period architectural details has assisted us with the renovation of a period cottage in Linlithgow.