Scotland.—The term as at present used includes the whole northern portion of the Island of Great Britain, which is divided from England by the Cheviot Hills, th...
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Recently we’ve gotten through in as little as half an hour, but it can take much longer depending on how many flights are coming in and staffing. You also have to factor in the time to get from Heathrow to London Kings Cross. It’s about an hour direct by Picadilly Line. –If you...
It might be worth investing in an annual membership for the National Trust for Scotland (joinhere), an annual Historic Environment Scotland membership, a short term Historic Scotland Explorer Pass or the VisitBritain Heritage Pass. Note though, that privately owned castles are not included in these...
The very earliest Scottish shortbread was made from remnants of left-over bread dough which contained oatmeal and yeast (hence the 'bread' part in the name), which was then sprinkled with sugar and baked slowly in a cool oven. The 'short' in the name comes from the baking term 'short'...
The fourth office is that of the deacons, who have to do with 1 " Tulchan," a calf-skin filled with straw, supposed to induce the cow to give milk freely; hence a term of contempt for one who is used as a dummy for the advantage of another. matters of property and are not ...
In the case of capercaillie, the long-term decline of the Scottish population has been attributed to a wide variety of pressures, from predation by foxes, corvids and pine martens, to climate change, parasitic sheep ticks, habitat change and disturbance. Furthermore, recently modelled data suggest...
This study presents a summer temperature reconstruction using Scots pine tree-ring chronologies for Scotland allowing the placement of current regional temperature changes in a longer-term context. ‘Living-tree’ chronologies were extended using ‘subfossil’ samples extracted from nearshore lake sediments...
The hospital block at the Ayrshire Asylum was built during Dr Charles Easterbrook’s term there as Medical Superintendent from 1902-7, after which he went on to the Crichton Royal.In 1958 the asylum adopted the name of Ailsa Hospital and ten years later Glengall House was converted for use ...
Relationships with temperature were apparent, but were significant for fewer than half of the species. Conclusion Bird species vary greatly in their phenological response to climate warming. The recent decade of sustained higher spring temperatures has enabled greater detection of change in long‐term ...