Crathes Programme
1st – 8th August
Access to Crathes Castle and Gardens during the week.
Guided Castle, Gardens and Archaeological tours and, for the bravest, the Castle Tower Ghost Tour
The Aboyne Highland Games
Burnett Luncheon
Guided visit to the Loch of Leys and the Crannog
Lecture and Supper – Family History and Heraldry with Charles Burnett, former Ross Herald
Afternoon visit to Kemnay House, home of the Burnetts of Kemnay
Re-enactments of the Barony Court Trials with visitor participation and (voluntary) use of stocks for the guilty miscreants!)
Croquet on the Castle lawn with Bob Burnett former British champion
Guided estate tours including a visit to the Highland Cattle Centre
Demonstration by Iain Burnett, the Highland Chocolatier
Go-Ape Treetop Adventure
Guided walk to the Burnett Monument on nearby Scolty Hill
Scottish Country Dance lessons and Ceilidh Workshops
Journey on the Deeside Railway – with country dancing
Grand Ceilidh at Woodend Barn
Farewell Barbecue
Local Tours including
Historical Aberdeen
Royal Deeside including Braemar Highland Games Centre & Royal Lochnagar Distillery
Northern Tour including Ballindalloch Castle, Speyside Cooperage & Glenlivet Distillery
Southern Tour including Drum Castle, Dunnottar Castle & the Lewis Grassic Gibbon Centre
Evening Roe Deer Hunting
Salmon Fishing on the River Dee
Golf at Inchmarlo (Golf Course and Driving Range) and other courses
and much more
Sunday 8th – Wednesday 11th August
Edinburgh Only Tour
Edinburgh via St Andrews and to include guided tours in Edinburgh to include Edinburgh Castle,
Palace of Holyrood and the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
Stirling Castle and Loch Lomond
Sunday 8th – Wednesday 11th August
Highlands Only Tour
Culloden, Inverness; Loch Ness, Eilean Donan Castle, Isle of Skye, Armadale Castle and cross by the ferry to Mallaig
Journey on the Jacobite Steam Train,
Blair Atholl
Sunday 8th – Saturday 14th August
Highlands & Edinburgh Tour
Culloden, Inverness; Loch Ness, Eilean Donan Castle, Isle of Skye, Armadale Castle and cross by the ferry to Mallaig
Journey on the Jacobite Steam Train,
Blair Atholl
Edinburgh via St Andrews and to include guided tours in Edinburgh to include Edinburgh Castle,
Palace of Holyrood and the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
Stirling Castle and Loch Lomond
Further details will be coming very soon
If you are interested in attending the Gathering in 2021 and wish to know more, it would be helpful if you can email burnettgathering@leysestate.co.uk as follows:
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Crathes Tour:
Edinburgh Tour:
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