Culloden House Hotel

The Culloden House is one of the most Palatial places that i have ever seen in my life. It still has that Longueville House feel to it, but it also feels like I'm some English nobleman.  We were reading the guest list and Tony Blair is on it.  ...

... understand in one grossly over-simplified paragraph.  The point is…the 1745 uprising, put down at the famous battle of Culloden, was the last straw for the English.  They had had it with the Highland Clans, whom they did not understand, ...

... . This period encompasses the great conflicts between the Scots and the English which ended with the English victory at Culloden.  The animosity  probably goes back to 1296 when the English King Edward I defeated the Scottish King John ...

... than home, but we loved the sleep in... Breakfast as delightful as the meal the night before... Into the car and onto Culloden... hard to imagine such a restful place was the location of one of history's horrific battles.... Then again =the weather today ...

... Clava are the real rock stars! The cairns are a group of stone burial mounds dating from around 2000BC. They are not far from Culloden and once the busload of tourists left we pretty much had the place to ourselves and took our time exploring the site. ...

... to watch the Movie!      We went to the site of the last battle on British soil. Culloden was a fierce battle where Scottish supporters of Bonnie Prince Charlie where cruelly crushed by English forces of King George. For ...

... on the island of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides when Bonnie Prince Charlie took refuge there after the Battle of Culloden. The prince's companion, a Captain O'Neill, sought her assistance to help the prince escape capture. The island was controlled by ...

... later seeking refuge in France. Oh but what comes 'round, goes 'round: Charlie died from syphllis while there. About a mile from Culloden Battlefield, south of the River Nairn, are the Clava Cairns. They have no relation to the battle and date back to at ...

... to stop at a tea rooms for a bit of afternoon tea, but found it too pricey, so soldiered on the battlefield of Culloden, a short distance out of Inverness. Culloden was the last battle to take place on British soil, and was fought between the Jacobite ...

... last few days, although it rained on and off.  But today it was blowing a gale outside.  We wanted to see the battle of Culloden, but it was so windy it made this almost impossible.  We saw a lecture on it and found out that it was the last ...

... me and felt very comfortable here.  We are staying at a hotel called The Lime Tree Inn and it is a house that was built in the 1800's converted to a hotel, restaurant and art gallery.  The moment I walked in I felt at home....I just love this ...

... then follow a narrow single lane road near Balmoral Castle (the Royal Family's Scottish residence), and eventually come out at Culloden, the last battle on British soil in 1746, when the Scots finally lost their independence (which still rankles with ...

Our trip from Inverness to Forfar was once again leisurely, no rushing. We stopped at Culloden Battlefield, where the clans fought and died, then on to Blair Castle, Blair Atthol. This is one of the larger non royal castles. It is completely white, and ...

... competition with her) that the scots love their bag pipes and history of war that they seem to be proud of a battle they lost in culloden (still confused about that) that we now know where the hamilton estate is and that our house is a little bit of a fix ...