Glen Tilt - A ride through history - The People - Glen Tilt Geology

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Glen Tilt - A ride through history - The People - Glen Tilt Geology - Scottish Rights of Way Society

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Join me on a cycle ride through Glen Tilt's history. One of Scotland's and Perthshire's most historic and picturesque glens. Popular with walkers and cyclists. How many know its history?
Glen Tilt helped shape modern geology in 1785, the geologist James Hutton found evidence that challenged the then accepted belief that the Earth had been created only about 6,000 years ago, according to the narrative in the biblical book of Genesis. It was hugely controvertial. We visit the waterfall.
Glen Tilt helped shape the Scottish Rights of Way Society in 1847 when the Duke of Atholl and his ghillies tried to stop a party led by John Balfour a Professor of Botany at the University of Edinburgh. He and his party of students were undertaking fieldwork in the glen. The House of Lords determining the right of way of a traditional and well-established route ran through the glen. This made legal history and becoming part of the foundations of the Scottish Rights of Way Society.
Mary Queen of Scots was here in 1564 and Queen Victoria were here in 1844. The local highland villages and its peoples all played an important part in the history of Glen Tilt.
The story of Glen Tilt Marble and its quarry and we see Marble Lodge, named after the quarry.
I have cycled up and down it from Killiecrankie for the past 20 years. I have got to know it well. But others know it better. So I decided I would share some of what I discovered by riding the glen and taking you to the interesting spots along the glen from Blair Atholl to the Falls of Tarf.

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@JohnDouglas-s9u 2 ай бұрын

Way back in 66 I was one of some 50 + schoolboys from Scunthorpe who camped at Gilberts bridge, completing some DoE tasks, but mostly working alongside the Dukes workforce on the estate. I was just short of 15 years old and the fortnight spent in Glen Tilt still lives large in my memories.

@JamesRattray 2 ай бұрын

Brilliant John, love that. It just shows how important these experiences are for people when young. Have you been back?

@JohnDouglas-s9u 2 ай бұрын

@@JamesRattray I have been to Blair Castle and Pitlochry on several occasions since those days. At 73 years of age there are few of us left who could get up to Gilberts bridge. A number of us meet a couple of times a year at the next meeting I intend to propose a trip back to relive the memories, I feel it will be well received. Could even ask permission to camp on the old campsite for a night.

@JamesRattray 2 ай бұрын

@@JohnDouglas-s9u You could hire bicycles and cycle and walk up. I am really pleased to hear you have gatherings with your old pals. Brilliant, thank you for sharing that with me.

@Jennifer.4 Жыл бұрын

Really interesting video. I am going to walk along here in the near future, I will look out for the historical and geological sites you have mentioned.

@JamesRattray Жыл бұрын

Thank you Jennifer, it is a lovely glen full of history. Enjoy your walk, make sure you have a good set of binoculars with you, as there is lots to see, especially the Ring Ouzels in the summer. I have had much fun watching them in Glen Tilt. The ring ouzel is primarily a bird of the uplands, where it breeds mainly in steep sided-valleys, crags and gullies, from near sea level in the far north of Scotland up to 1,200m in the Cairngorms. Breeding begins in mid-April and continues through to mid-July, with two broods common, and nests are located on or close to the ground in vegetation (typically in heather), in a crevice, or rarely in a tree. The young are fed a diet consisting mainly of earthworms and beetles.

@braesotullymet3723 8 ай бұрын

Super video, thankyou. I was surprised to hear of your desire for wolves as I thought that might make a trip like this a bit dangerous

@JamesRattray 8 ай бұрын

I don't believe wolves harm people, as Hollywood make us believe. i always think of all those people who live on the edge of tiger parks, where tigers do eat people and elephants trample and destroy crops. We in Britain have long since exterminated our top predators. Britain is ranked amongst the world's most bio depleted habitats in the world. Yes I would love to see wolves on the Scottish moors.

@jimmyjohnstone5878 2 жыл бұрын

I have cycled the whole way to Braemar. Then Glen Feshie. Pushed the bike only on narrow bits with a drop to side. Hard going.

@JamesRattray 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. I was never organised enough to do that. Is Falls of Tarf about half way to Braemar or less than half way?

@jimmyjohnstone5878 2 жыл бұрын

@@JamesRattray slightly less. It was very hot the last time I did it and clegs bit me through my cycling shorts going up the first few km through the wooded section. I went to bed that night with an ice pack to soothe the painful lumps.

@JamesRattray 2 жыл бұрын

@@jimmyjohnstone5878 Thank you. I believe some of the fitter the Atholl Highlanders walked the route recently. About ten years or so ago. It is a good hike. I certainly don't fancy the clegs a fearful bite!!

@deer1034 2 жыл бұрын

Marble Lodge was owned by my Mum's Auntie Cathie (Coyne), her Mum's ( Margaret Seaton) youngest sister. Mum used to go there for her holidays in the 1940s with her sister (from Ardgie Farm). Uncle George was a shepherd. Auntie Cathie was killed crossing the road in Dunkeld many years later, when she had gone to buy ice cream.

@JamesRattray 2 жыл бұрын

I am sorry, I missed seeing your very important comments. I had incorrectly thought Marble Lodge was always owned by Atholl Estates. I have cycled past it many a time. In your few words you have told us so much, joy and sadness. Thank you for sharing this us.