The Fortingall Yew

We arrived in Fortingall late on a dreich afternoon, lights already on.




What a handsome place this Perthshire village is! Its arts-and-crafts thatched cottages look more like a chocolate-box English village than the more usual grey boxes of Scotland, setting their faces against the weather.



The church site is old. Monks from Iona preached here in Pictish times. The reason this site was