Falkirk has some amazing parkland, and the Gray-Buchanan park is a magnificent example. It is huge, covering an impressive variety of land types, with a river and cliffs and miles of wonderful woodland walking.

It used to be an estate, and this is the estate house – Parkhill. There has been a house on this site since at least the 1400s. Stone fragments that date from that time have been found, one inscribed with the motto ‘poverty is the adversary of renown’. The current house appears to date from around 1790, with extensions in the 1800s. For most of the 20th century it belonged to the Gray-Buchanan family who made their money from Black And White Whisky. However, the family had no heir and passed the estate to the people of Falkirk (I can’t find the date). The house itself is now flats.