Specialised Subjects
Seeing as the website’s called Bothy Tales, then for those who were expecting help in that area, please find the all-important link for the Mountain Bothies Association!
This record of high ground aircraft crash sites has grown over the years to include a much larger area and now covers 128 sites in Scotland dating from World War II on.
Your go-to for those bricks and overviews of the various works that
produced them – worth it just for the quote “I get my kicks out of
bricks!”.
Lists numerous Covenanter memorials across Scotland dating from the period often known as the ‘Killing Times’ of 1638-88.
Dedicated to those often elaborate little structures which fall into the category of follies, grottoes and garden buildings from across the UK.
Contains records on over 4,000 hillfort and possible hillforst sites across the UK, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
A great gazetteer of UK hospitals both past and present, listed by region and area. There’s also blog posts that delve deeper into various aspects of their history.
The cumulative work of volunteers collecting information on milestones standing at roadsides across the length and breadth of Scotland, England and Wales.
Gives the history for each line and station, past and present, and contains over 70,000 photographs from over 300 contributors.
Lots of information about prehistoric rock art, as well as the locations and details of 1,630 rock art sites across Scotland as recorded by regional volunteer groups. g
A website dedicated to underground spaces, as they say themselves: “from mines to railway tunnels, military defences to nuclear bunkers and everything in between”.
An interactive map allowing you to search for cases of accused witches across Scotland from the period 1563 to 1736.
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