Cairngorms and East Coast
The Cairngorms are the focal point of a national park in north east Scotland, established in 2003. It was the second of two national parks established by the Scottish Parliament, after Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, set up in 2002. The park covers the Cairngorms range of mountains, and surrounding hills. Already the largest national park in the British Isles, in 2010 it expanded into Highland and Perth and Kinross. Extending east from the Cairngorms, the region is bounded by the Moray Firth and the North Sea. Geographically diverse, the landscape in the south of the region is comprised predominantly of undulating farmland, but as you travel further north, this gives way to wooded glens, mountains and increasingly harsh land fringed by a dramatic coast of cliffs and long sandy beaches.
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Lady's Tower - Elie - East Coast
Lady's Tower is a ruined tower located beside Ruby Bay on the Fife coast near to Elie. Lady's Tower was built during the 1770's for Lady Janet Anstruther as a summer house while she indulged in her passion for reportedly 'skinny dipping' in the sea at Ruby Bay. On the Ruby Bay side of the tower are the remains of her disrobing area which were carved out of the rock face. On those occasions when she wanted to take a dip it's reported that she sent out a bell ringer to warn the local people to stay away from the area. Ruby Bay is named after the garnets which have been known to wash ashore here and which occasionally still do
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