Ready to land
As winter migrants head to Scotland’s wetlands in search of food and better weather, we reveal the best Trust places to see them.
Preston Mill & Phantassie Doocot teacher information
Preston Mill is one of the oldest water-driven meal mills in Scotland. There has been a mill on this site for centuries.
Newhailes House & Gardens teacher information
Newhailes is an important example of a late 17th-century house (with impressive 18th-century additions) set within a designed landscape.
Mar Lodge Estate teacher information
Mar Lodge Estate is recognised as one of the most important nature conservation landscapes in the British Isles. Set within the Cairngorms National Park, and with 15 Munros within its boundaries, it has some of the most remote and scenic wild land in Scotland.
Kintail teacher information
Kintail is a beautiful stretch of West Highland landscape, which includes the Five Sisters of Kintail (designated a National Scenic Area) and the Falls of Glomach (one of the highest waterfalls in Britain).
Killiecrankie teacher information
The Pass of Killiecrankie is a spectacular, deep river gorge cloaked in ancient woodland and flanked on the west by the River Garry. The Battle of Killiecrankie (part of the first Jacobite rising) took place nearby in 1689.
Inverewe teacher information
Inverewe is set on a peninsula on the shores of Loch Ewe, within the Wester Ross National Scenic Area. It’s renowned for its exotic plants which flourish here on a latitude that’s more northerly than Moscow.
Inveresk Lodge Garden teacher information
Inveresk Lodge Garden is an attractive, terraced hillside garden surrounding a 17th-century lodge house. There’s a small mixed woodland area to one side of the meadow and a pond with a dipping platform.
Harmony Garden teacher information
Harmony is a garden of abundance. The vegetable garden demonstrates traditional growing techniques, while the mixed flower borders are skilfully laid out to provide an aesthetic frame for the grand Georgian house.
Glencoe teacher information
Glencoe is well known for its breathtaking landscape, but there’s much more to be discovered in its unknown corners.
Drum Castle, Garden & Estate teacher information
Drum Castle is one of Royal Deeside’s most beautiful castles and the oldest intact castle in the care of the National Trust for Scotland.
Culzean Castle & Country Park teacher information
Culzean Castle & Country Park is a major heritage site, situated on the Ayrshire coast 50 miles south of Glasgow.
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