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Where will your membership take you? SCOTLAND CALLING

With travel restrictions lifted, why not explore where your National Trust membership can take you? In the first of a new series, we look at just some of what’s on offer to National Trust members in Scotland. Explore what’s on offer to you, at reduced or free entry, through your membership.

Above (l-r): Royal Burgh of Culross, The Tenement House, Inverewe © National Trust for Scotland, Holmwood.

Founded more than 90 years ago, the National Trust for Scotland cares for some of the most magnificent buildings, collections and natural habitats in the country. An army of volunteers and staff bring to life around 90 properties, 300,000 artefacts and more than 76,000 hectares of countryside and gardens. The most popular sites include the glorious estate of Culzean Castle, the birthplace of national poet Robert Burns, stunning Glencoe National Nature Reserve, the island home of the UK’s largest colony of Atlantic puffins (St Kilda), and the battlefields of Culloden and Bannockburn. There are also many lesser-known attractions well worth taking time to discover, such as Inverewe Garden, the burgh of Culross and The Tenement House in Glasgow. Set on a clifftop overlooking the South Ayrshire coast, Culzean Castle was designed by famous Scottish architect Robert Adams in the eighteenth century for the Kennedy family. An oval staircase forms a dramatic centrepiece in the neo-classic building, whose entrance hall boasts one of the largest collections of British military flintlock pistols in the world. Wander the castle’s magnificent 260 hectare estate, which incorporates woodland, beaches, a deer park, flamboyant formal gardens, a walled garden, glasshouses, secret follies and adventure play areas for children. For some of Scotland’s most dramatic scenery, head to Glencoe in the heart of the Highlands. This famous landscape has featured in many films such as Skyfall and the Harry Potter movies, but make sure to set aside time for a visit to the eco-friendly visitor centre to find out more about its haunting real-life history as the scene of a tragic massacre in 1692. For nature lovers, pack your hiking boots and follow some of the 60 kilometres of walking trails in the reserve, go on a safari with one of the Trust’s rangers, or even climb one of the eight Munro mountains that tower above the glen. For garden lovers, there are dozens of choices across Scotland. One of the most astonishing is Inverewe, a loch-side garden lovingly created by a father and daughter amid a barren wilderness on the Atlantic Coast in the North West Highlands. A demonstration of creativity and experimentation in a challenging setting, it features rare and unusual plants gathered from around the world, including Wollemi pines. An exhibition in the summerhouse also gives visitors the chance to find out more about the area’s amazing marine wildlife and its maerl beds – Scotland’s coral reef. Fans of the hit television series Outlander might like to visit the royal burgh of Culross, 22 miles north-west of Edinburgh, which served as the fictional village of Cranesmuir. Scotland’s most complete example of a burgh of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this picturesque village boasts white-harled houses with red-tiled roofs, cobbled streets and a hilltop abbey. In the centre is an ochre-coloured palace with a beautifully reconstructed vegetable garden inhabited by rare Scots Dumpy hens. For a city-based experience, head to Glasgow and explore Holmwood, the extraordinary 1850s family home of paper magnate James Couper. Designed by Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson, it displays his penchant for Grecian styling and symmetry, and opulent decoration echoing the colours of ancient Greek temples. Experience a very different standard of living at The Tenement House, where four rooms appearing as if frozen in time provide a rare glimpse into middle-class life in early twentieth-century Glasgow. For more than 50 years, this tenement was the home of shorthand typist Miss Agnes Toward, who preserved her furniture and possessions with love and care, holding on to all sorts of things most people threw away. There is even a jar of plum jam made in 1929!

There are so many National Trust sites to choose from in Scotland: explore the options before you leave, via the National Trust for Scotland website - www.nts.org.uk

Travelling the world with your NTSA membership

Being a member of The National Trust of South Australia gives people the satisfaction of knowing they are helping to preserve and promote South Australia’s natural and built heritage. It also offers benefits for members travelling interstate or overseas. A NTSA membership card allows people to enter sites cared for by organisations that belong to INTO (International National Trusts Organisation), as part of a global reciprocal visiting scheme covering more than a thousand localities. Free or discounted visiting rights have been negotiated as part of INTO’s mission to promote the conservation and enhancement of the heritage of all nations for the benefit of people around the world.

For a full picture of where your membership can take you, visit

www.into.org/places/

Our members are the lifeblood of the National Trust. We need your support more than ever. The benefits of membership include free entry and discounts to National Trust properties across Australia and around the world. We encourage you to sign up a new member and extend your membership to support the National Trust.

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