Ossian's Hall - The Hermitage (National Trust for Scotland)

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Ossian's Hall - The Hermitage (National Trust for Scotland)

A woodland cathedral of towering Douglas firs opening onto a folly poised above a thundering Highland waterfall.

Editor’s Choice★★★★★Gem 4/10Perth and Kinross

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Follow the wooded path along the River Braan and the trees grow ever taller, until you reach one of Britain's most theatrical woodland moments: Ossian's Hall, an 18th-century folly perched directly over the roaring Black Linn Falls. Some of the tallest trees in the country soar overhead, filtering the light into green cathedral gloom. It is beautiful in every season — bluebell-lit in spring, molten gold in autumn, dramatic after rain when the falls run full. A short walk that lingers long in the memory, and reliably one of Perthshire's finest.

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This is the rare woodland walk people happily cross the country to experience — soaring firs, a dramatic folly and a waterfall you feel in your chest. A once-a-season kind of place.

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  • Nature Lovers
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  • Romantic Escape
  • History Lovers

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