A Dander Up the Knock of Crieff

[@EdExploresScotland]

🔷🔷 IMPORTANT NOTE: PLEASE SWITCH THE 'STABLE VOLUME' SETTING OFF, SO YOU HEAR THE VIDEO AS I INTENDED, WITH THE MUSIC (ESPECIALLY AT THE END) LOUDER THAN GENERAL SPEECH. THANK YOU. 🔷🔷

[@iainmc9859]

'The Fat Lassies of Stirling' , one of Burns' finest 🤣

[@peterlaycock917]

Thanks Ed all the best from Edinburgh have a great Christmas when it comes.

[@EdExploresScotland]

Many thanks Peter. I suppose many of us are kinda glad when the festive period is over, but it is certainly a period of memories and good times. All the best.

[@golfingmags5]

Hi Ed, no Public Toilets,no Bakers, not many buses…we’re doomed. However the scenery was glorious thank you🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@EdExploresScotland]

Cheers Margaret.

[@brycehermon5939]

Another excellent video thanks Ed. Certainly a nice place to visit on such a pleasant day.

[@EdExploresScotland]

Yes, it's important to venture out at this time of year.

[@jocky2]

Thanks a lot Eddy, great views of the hills and the colours of Autumn. I like the look of the town too. Well done gettin oot the hoose. It's funny but with the supermarkets came many benefits , my dad went to Massey's every Friday night and came back with an big box full of stuff and as they were full time workers my parents had limited time for shopping so it helped a lot, but like you say the food quality has gone out the bottom and it's hard to get enough nutrition. Which I suppose accounts for the huge increase in illness in society. One thing that troubles me as well is that we were outside playing a lot as kids, and this was a great contributer to our health : fresh air, and contact with nature. Too many kids are stuck in front of a telly or playing computer games- it's tragic.

[@EdExploresScotland]

You're absolutely right. If doctors could prescribe proper food and excercise we could do away with many pills.

[@egallagher41]

Thanks Ed that was fun🤠

[@ewanp13]

Thanks for that - I used to be taken to Crieff Hydro regularly from the beginning of my life until my teens (family attachment to the fact that the hotel used to accommodate widows of Church of Scotland ministers FOC) As you said the view is great, but back in the day the run up to the top then back to tea in the kid's dinner room was the best. Thanks for the video!

[@thomasmcloney1437]

Thanks again ed. That was enjoyable and the scenery magic. Good music. Cheers and good fortune.

[@EdExploresScotland]

Cheers Thomas.

[@thomasmcloney1437]

@EdExploresScotland thanks Ed. Looking forward to the next one. Good luck.

[@sheilam4525]

Really enjoyed this one, Ed, the ending was great😊👏

[@EdExploresScotland]

Many thanks Sheila. 👍

[@RabP-m2i]

Good crieff🙀 good wee video, nice tune👍

[@EdExploresScotland]

Thanks Rab.

[@Lynnthomason45]

Really enjoyed this walk, Ed. The music was perfect. Thanks, Lynn in Naples FL😎

[@EdExploresScotland]

Thanks Lynn.

[@Yusuf-Alli]

Some boy Ed keepit up you're a great watch/personality

[@EdExploresScotland]

Cheers Yusuf.

[@dannystewart9482]

Used to visit Crieff often Ed. Your footage of the high street showed quite a number of premises for sale, last time I was there it seemed so many local businesses were closed or closing. Now I hear that the Drummond Arms is to be demolished. Such a shame, and it seems to be happening all over. Cheers, another good video.

[@EdExploresScotland]

Cheers Danny. The whole country's going to pot. Roads overflowing with delivery vehicles while our High Streets flounder. I was talking to a woman at the bus stop in Crieff. She said the Drummond Arms has lain empty for many years, and that there were plans to turn it into housing. I don't know which story is true, but High Streets and businesses all over Scotland and the rest of the UK are struggling.

[@dannystewart9482]

@@EdExploresScotland Had many a pint in the Drummond Arms, usually after a day on the hills. I read about it just a few days ago in the Courier I think.

[@bertifrasilmeye995]

Hi my great..?grandmother was married at Knocknamuckley church Ireland, which means hill of the pigs. There is a lot of knocks, you must keep climbing them! Atb

[@EdExploresScotland]

Absolutely. Small hills have a lot going for them.

[@Kal-ir9ze]

Glad to hear your better sir. Lovely little video. Will need to tip to the town sometime How about a Clyde video with the Clyde coast all way down to say Stranraer or shipwrecks.

[@EdExploresScotland]

Thank you. Yes, certainly lots of scope and material for videos in the Clyde coast.

[@thetimetraveller6550]

Nice wee hill 🗻that is a knock is a small hill Gaelic word is cnoc... 😊 good vid Ed here's the knock bog ----> 🚽

[@EdExploresScotland]

Cheers. 👍

[@allonesame6467]

About Crieff, from the book, "The Intelligent Traveller's Guide to Historic Scotland", by Philip Axtell Crowl -- "Highland agriculture never rose much above the level of bare subsistence and was certainly insufficiently productive to allow tenants to pay the rents demanded by landlords or by the "tacksmen" who held large pieces of property under lease or "tack" from the great landowners to whom they were often related by blood. Rents, in most cases, were paid out of the sale of black cattle, possibly two or three per year by each tenant. Late in the summer these rugged but scrawny beasts would be gathered into herds by drovers and driven to the great annual cattle tryst at Crieff in Perthshire or, later (after about 1770), to the tryst held three times a year near Falkirk Certain traditional routes--the so-called drove roads--converged onto one or both of these centrally located entrepots from all parts of the Highlands and Islands. (From the out Hebrides the cattle normally went by open boat to Skye, where they were roped in tandem and forced to swim across Kyle Rhea to the mainland.) By 1723 as many as 30, 000 beasts a year were being driven south to the great fair of Crieff, and before the traffic ended in the mid-nineteenth century, an estimated 150,000 head were sold at Falkirk. The buyers were mostly English, who then drove the cattle further south-ward to the rich grazing grounds of Northumberland or Yorkshire for fattening before final butchery. High on their list of consumers were the British Army and Navy, with their virtually insatiable demand for salted beef. from 1739 to 185, Britain was involved in an almost continuous series of wars with France and her allies, and the steady rise in the price of cattle was in direct proportion to the expansion of the armed forces. And far away from the battlefields of Europe or from the distant seas where the Royal Navy fought its many engagements, the simple Highland peasant year after year turned over a fraction of his tiny herd to the drover, pocketed a few pounds in exchange, and paid the rent."

[@itsablack1]

Your right , that wasn't the summit of the knock you will need to go back 😅 Crieff has a very good bakery , it's called Damsel Bakery , but guess what , it's closed on a Monday 😂 There is also a new pastry bakery opening up soon maybe they will do sausage rolls for you 🤔😅

[@Mikey_0007]

Hi Ed. I absolutely love your work. Your an inspiration. Keep these videos coming, don't stop! Brilliant ❤ Mikey from Musselburgh.

[@EdExploresScotland]

Thanks Mikey. 👍

[@Ahm.nae-fou]

I certainly agree with your rant about bakers. in France to call themselves a boulangerie a baker must oversee the baking process themselves and not just resell products, it means the quality in France is much better than other countries.

[@james-qw1mi]

its the very same in balloch the public tolets were shut on sat good job the co op was open to use thier tolets

[@EdExploresScotland]

Maybe supermarkets have something going for them after all.

[@johnmccarron]

My Gran called the Clock a Knock

[@wishawweather5421]

Another interesting wee upload. Cheers. What's the difference between a dander (pronounced "don'er) and a saunter? Or are they one and the same?

[@EdExploresScotland]

An interesting question. I imagine both words pretty much mean the same where walking is concerned.

[@1964biggmark]

not been in Crieff for years :) my brother was a manager in an Indian Resteraunt (sp) aye white man lol

[@1964biggmark]

wouldnt entertain supermarket cheap bread must be good quality and never put in a shopping bag either, I like my bread whole not crushed lol

[@johnnymac26]

im 57 and when i was a kid chicken was a luxury a treat we had the odd sunday instead of stew or mince and tatties now its an everyday food and totally tasteless may i say

[@voicezful]

Well done Ed for making it up the 793 foot Knock of Crieff. Once the centre of the universe, but ruined by a blinkered SNP led area Council.. The very useless path you retreated upon cost tens of thousands of pounds and turned an unspoilt haven into a regular play park of clutter and gravel. A muddy path has more memories in my opinion.

[@EdExploresScotland]

I'm inclined to agree with you. Mud has a lot going for it.

[@atifmanzoor63]

Mr Burns get your self a smart phone and tell us how many miles you walked that would be helpful