Over the last couple of years I’ve been in touch with Dr. Alex Fleming of St. Andrews University who is working on a project titled Scotland and the Flemish People. Alex explains in his excellent blog that it is known that there was considerable settlement of Flemish people in Glenshee from the 1600s onwards and that the superb ruined fermtoun of Easter Bleaton (see the aerial photograph gallery) is believed to have had Flemish connections – partly as oral tradition in the glen suggests this… something confirmed to me through conversations with people in the glen. I thoroughly recommend at this material and hope our project might be able to contribute to this theme of work in the future.
David Strachan
PKHT
David Strachan
PKHT
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