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| Stirling Castle is an historic castle in Stirling, Scotland. The castle sits atop the castle hill, a volcanic crag, and is surrounded on three sides by steep cliffs. http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/properties_sites_detail.htm? propertyID=PL_275 |
| The Forth Bridge is a railway bridge over the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, to the east of the Forth Road Bridge, and 14 km (9 miles) west of Edinburgh. http://www.forthbridges.org.uk/railbridgemain.htm |
| Lewis, is the northern part of the main island of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland, the southern part of which is called Harris, however Lewis and Harris are treated by Scots as separate islands in their own right, so Lewis is officially known as the Isle of Lewis. http://www.isle-of-lewis.com/ |
| Melrose Abbey, located in Melrose, Scotland, was founded in 1136 by Cistercian monks, on the request of King David I of Scotland. http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/properties_sites_detail.htm? propertyID=PL_210 |
| The Bank of Scotland was established by an act of the Parliament of Scotland on 17 July 1695, opening for business in February 1696. http://www.bankofscotland.co.uk/ |
| The ruins of Linlithgow Palace are situated in the town of Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland, 15 miles west of Edinburgh. A royal manor existed on the site in the 12th Century. http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/properties_sites_detail.htm?p ropertyID=PL_199 |
| Fort George, Ardersier, Highland, Scotland, is a large 18th century fortress near Inverness with perhaps the mightiest artillery fortifications in Europe. It was built to pacify the Scottish Highlands in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745, replacing an earlier Fort George built with the same aim after the 1715 Jacobite rising. http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/properties_sites_detail.htm?prop ertyID=PL_136 |
| Scotland is a nation in northwest Europe and a constituent country of the United Kingdom. The country takes up the northern third of the island of Great Britain and shares a land border to the south with England and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the south-west. |