Private Half Day Tour from Edinburgh of Three Outlander Castles

Visit: Private Tours Edinburgh, Edinburgh Scotland

Tours start at 10 am . Our private group tours take up to four people to three castles used as filming locations in Scotland . We also offer bespoke private tours with the option of choosing your own itinerary .

Itinerary

Doune Castle was built in 1400 for the first Duke of Albany and provides the setting for Castle Leoch in Outlander. It was also the set for Winterfell in Game of Thrones and Monty Python’s Holy Grail. The Great Hall is 20 metres by 8 metres , and 12 metres high to its timber roof, again a 19th-century replacement.The hall has no fireplace, and was presumably heated by a central fire, and ventilated by means of a louvre like the one in the modern roof. No details of the original roof construction are known, however, and the restoration is conjectural.Large windows light the hall, and stairs lead down to the three cellars on ground level.

Linlithgow Palace 

Depicted as Wentworth Prison, the prison corridors and entrance were used in episode 15 of the first series when Jamie Fraser was brutally incarcerated by his adversary, Black Jack Randall.

The now-ruined palace is set among the spectacular surrounds of Linlithgow Loch and Peel

Midhope Castle - Lalllybroch

Midhope Castle is the external location for fictional Lallybroch, the family home of character Jamie Fraser. Midhope Castle dates back to the 15th Century and although the exterior is relatively intact the castle is derelict inside and not open to the public ..

Scotland’s stunning landscape, with its rolling hills, rugged mountains, picturesque towns and villages, castles and sprawling beaches has provided the perfect backdrop for the world of cinema.

The show is based on American author Diana Gabaldon’s series of historical novels, which sees nurse Claire Beauchamp Randell mysteriously swept back from 1945 to 1743 Highland Scotland where rebellion and romance are afoot. The landscape itself is a character in the show. There’s a particular quality to the light in Scotland, even to the grass and the trees.

The tour spends about an hour at each location .
• Travel by saloon car
• Small private group tour with a maximum of 4 people

Lunch , refreshments and entrance tickets are not included in the price.