The grave lies in the cemetery beside Culross Abbey Church.

Colour Sergeant Stewart MacPherson, 78th Highlanders, awarded the VC for actions at Lucknow, 26/9/1857:-

I forgot to say in my previous post on the village that Culross is pronounced Coo-russ.

If you climb the hilly street you will reach the ruins of Culross Abbey.

There is a more modern church built more or less on the same site but you can still wander around the ruins of the original Abbey.

Tower of Culross Abbey church:-

Abbey information board:-

The Abbey as was:-

Ruins of Culross Abbey with River Forth beyond:-

Vault. The metal steps up to this are very steep:-

Ceiling of vault:-

Culross Abbey Wall, tower of Culross Abbey church behind:-

Looking back compared to above photo:-

Abbey ruins:-

Culross Abbey church as seen from ruins of Culross Abbey:-

Stained glass window, Culross Abbey church:-

Culross is a village in the west of Fife. I have previously featured its War Memorial.

It is an old village and still a royal burgh. Many of its cottages are now owned by the National Trust for Scotland. It is one of the many Scottish locations to appear in Outlander.

Street sign and thistle motif on doorway:-

Mercat Cross:-

House by Mercat Cross:-

Cobbled street:-

Steep street. Culross Abbey church in background:-

A curiosity; the Lockit Well. Click on photo then again to enlarge and read the plaque:-

A project to resurrect the mediæval Fife Pilgrim Way is now well in hand.

There were two main routes across the county (or kingdom as the locals still refer to it at times,) starting at Culross and North Queensferry and ending up at St Andrews.

The ancient route went through the nearest small town to Son of the Rock Acres, Markinch, the ancient capital of Fife.

There are some hopes the restored route(s) will bring modern day pilgrims (and other tourists) to the town.

A year or so ago there was an information day about the Pilgrim Way at St Drostan’s church. On display were several representations of monastic and pilgrim life, rendered in knitwear.

Trees and pilgrims:-

Church:-

Monks:-

Monks’ garden:-

Monastery vegetable patch:-

One of the places we visited last summer was the small village of Culross in the west of Fife (almost as far west as possible in Fife.)

The War Memorial is set in a small memorial garden hard by the car park at the west end of the village almost as close to the river Forth as you can get. The lower names here are for the dead of World War 2. The other names are for World War 1.

The lowest name here is for a soldier who died in Iraq in 2007.