Key Sights
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- Inverness (where the fictional Mrs Baird’s B&B is set)
- Loch Ness (where Claire and Frank enjoy a day trip)
- Urquhart Castle (which Claire and Frank visit during a day trip), Historic Scotland
- Fort William (where Jamie was held captive by Captain Randall)
- Culloden battle field, National Trust for Scotland
- Clan Fraser grave stone at Culloden
- Loch Garve, near Strathpeffer
- The village of Beauly and Beauly Priory – where Claire met the Fraser’s seer
- Edinburgh
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- “Craigh na Dun” stone circle; potentially inspired by the Clava Cairns
- Cocknammon Rock
- “Castle Leoch”; likely inspired by Castle Leod; this is said to be at the foot of Ben Aden, which exists (Knoydart), but far away from where Castle Leoch would logically be (by Inverness)
- Cranesmuir, home of Geillie Duncan
- St Ninian’s spring: there is a St. Ninian’s well near Stirling, however this is too far away from where the characters would have travelled at that point
- Villages along the route to Fort William: Tunnaig (there is a Loch Tunnaig in Argyll), Brockton
- Jamie’s home lands: Lallybroch – Broch Tuarach – Broch Mordha
- Wentworth prison
- Eldridge Hall is the fictional home of the MacRannoch clan
- Benedictine Abbey of Ste Anne de Beaupre; Sainte Anne de Beaupre is a town in Canada
- Black Jack;s grave at St Kilda Cemetery – marriage stone at St Kilda’s Kirk; a church exists on St. Kilda, but it is unlikely this is the actual location as the island is too remote
- Edinburgh Carfax Close
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- Falkland, Fife, featuring as backdrop to 1940s Inverness beginning of the story
- Tulloch Ghru area near Aviemore / Cairngorms National Park: background for journey from Craigh na Dun to Castle Leoch and also featuring in the opening credits
- Doune Castle, near Stirling, a medieval stronghold featuring as Castle Leoch (Historic Scotland)
- Royal Burgh of Culross, Fife, featuring as the 1740s fictional village of Cranesmuir: Claire’s herb garden is behind Culross Palace, it is open to the public. (National Trust for Scotland) featured as Geillis Duncan’s parlour and many scenes in season 2.
- Blackness Castle (Historic Scotland) 15th century fortress used to represent Fort William
- Linlithgow Palace stands in for the entrance to Wentworth prison entrance and corridors.
- Hopetoun House – features as the home of the Duke of Sandringham
- Midhope Castle: Set on the Hopetoun Estate – arrange by appointment only. Setting for the exterior scenes for Jamie’s childhood home Lallybroch
- Pollok Park Glasgow: Claire searches for medicines and herbs to treat the ill. Also features as grounds surrounding Castle Leoch.
- George Square Glasgow: where Frank proposes to Claire
- Highland Folk Museum in Newtonmore: backdrop for a number of period scenes
- Aberdour Castle doubles for Saint Ann de Beaupre’s monastery in France. The Old Kitchen and Long Gallery were used for filming.
- Finnich Glen near Killearn, Stirling: location for St. Ninian’s Spring where Dougal puts Claire to the test
- Rannoch Moor, Perthshire: backdrop to where Claire disappears (not the standing stones)
- Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway was transformed into the 1940s London train station
- Glencorse Old Kirk, Milton Bridge: setting for Claire and Jamie’s impromptu wedding
- Tibbermore Church, Perthshire – where Claire and Geillis were tried as witches.
- Balgonie Castle, Fife – home of the MacRannochs in season 1.
- Drummond Gardens, Crieff – doubled as a park in Paris as well as the gardens of the Palace of Versailles in season 2.
- Dysart Harbour, Fife – doubles as the French port of Le Havre where Claire and Jamie arrive at the start of Season 2.
- Reaper Tall Ship – berthed at the Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther, Fife – used as the ship which took Jamie and Claire to France.
- Deanston Distillery, near Stirling – doubled as French wine cellars and warehouse
- Callander House, Falkirk – the setting as the county home of the Duke of Sandringham
- Muiravonside Country Park – the setting for the Battle of Falkirk and Battle of Prestonpans
- Glasgow Cathedral – doubles as French hospital in Des Anges
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