Ochils

9th–2 Festival 3 rd Jun e a t ve 2012 nue s a cro ss t he H illfoots

Landscape | Heritage | People About the festival the About The Ochils Festival How to book: Booking The Ochils Landscape l All events are FREE! Partnership is a partnership project of 20 local organisations l Booking is required for some events. Please contact aiming to deliver 22 built, natural Kirsty McAlister, providing the names and contact and cultural heritage projects by details (postal and email addresses as well as phone the end of 2014. numbers) of everyone you wish to book onto an event. The overall aims of the projects are to improve access l Phone: 01259 452675 to the and River Devon, restore some of the built heritage in the area, and provide on-site and l on-line interpretation about the area's cultural, social Email: [email protected] and industrial past. l Post: please return the tear-off form on the back The Ochils Festival is here to encourage a greater page of this booklet to: understanding and appreciation of the Ochils and Kirsty McAlister, Ochils Landscape Partnership, Hillfoots among locals and visitors alike - there is Kilncraigs, Greenside Street, , FK10 1EB something for everyone! There are walks, talks, workshops and fun family activities designed to help l If you need to cancel your booking at any point, people discover more about the area and celebrate the please contact Kirsty McAlister on 07970 290 868 significant landscape heritage of the Ochils. so that your place can be re-allocated.

l Children under 18 MUST be accompanied by a responsible adult.

2 Ochils Festival 2012 www.ochils.org.uk 3 Grading of walks At a glance events listing The Ochils Landscape Partnership has followed the Saturday 9 June Sunday 17 June grading system implemented by the Ramblers. For more details on walk grading please see www. l Heritage walk: l Ochils Yarns ramblers.org.uk/areas_groups/grading. Walks are to Vicar's Bridge l Guided tour of graded as follows: l Ochils Fairytales Old Logie Kirk Leisurely Walks for reasonably fit people with at and Folklore and Kirkyard least a little country walking experience. l Guided tour of May include unsurfaced rural paths. Sunday 10 June Alva Kirkyard and the Walking boots and warm, waterproof l Guided tour of Johnstone Mausoleum clothing are recommended. Old Logie Kirk l Outdoor Survival Event and Kirkyard Moderate Walks for people with country walking for Families experience and a good level of fitness. l Guided tour of May include some steep paths and Alva Kirkyard and the Monday 18 June open country, and may be at a brisk Johnstone Mausoleum l The Hillfoots and the Grading of walks of Grading pace. Walking boots and warm, listings Events l Natural Art Activity 1884 Franchise waterproof clothing are essential. Demonstrations Important. Grades are provided as a general guide Tuesday 12 June Tuesday 19 June only: if you have any doubt about your fitness for a l Hillfoots History particular walk please contact the organiser. You should People's stories through l Place-name walk from also bear in mind the distance of the walk, regional objects, documents and to Alva differences in terrain and the possibility of bad weather, discussions which can make a walk more difficult than planned. l Thursday 21 June Leaders may refuse to accept participants who in their A Gloomy Glen can be opinion are inadequately equipped or unfit. a Turf Place to Live: l Genealogy / family a talk about recent history drop-in session archaeology work in l Dollar Glen Guided tour of Local transport Alva Kirkyard and the Johnstone Mausoleum For information on public transport, see Wednesday 13 June www.clacksweb.org.uk/transport/public/ l Plants and wildlife of Saturday 23 June www.travelinescotland.com/welcome.do the Devon: a botany l and photography walk Place-name walk from Tillicoultry to Alva Saturday 16 June l Food foraging in Alva Glen l Foraging innovation - nuts, nettles and knotweed l Outdoor Survival Event for Families

4 Ochils Festival 2012 www.ochils.org.uk 5 Heritage walk: Muckhart to Vicar's Bridge Ochils Fairytales and Folklore Sat 9th Sat Sat 9th Sat

Join us on this picturesque circular walk from FAMILY FRIENDLY EVENT! Muckhart to Vicar's Bridge and Pitgober, to look at Come and see us at Gala Day, where some of the historic tracks that were used to Evelyn Wilson (Heritage Interpretation Consultant) approach the old toll point at Muckhart. We will will be holding story-telling sessions based on view some hollow-ways (or sunken roads) and an Ochils fairytales and real-life witchcraft cases. Have old ford, now thankfully bridged, as well as see a go at hand-spinning, try on a medieval costume some excellent views of the Ochils. and discover some of the plants that were used in medieval medicine. When: Saturday 9 June 2012, 10am - 1pm Approximately 5 miles Moderate (see page 4) When: Saturday 9 June 2012, 12.30 - 4.30pm Where: This walk will begin and end outside the Inn at (with story-telling sessions beginning at 1.30, 2.30 Muckhart, Pool of Muckhart, FK14 7JN and 3.30pm) Event Leader: Neil Ramsay, Where: The Ochils Landscape Partnership stall at Heritage Paths Officer for Scotways Menstrie Gala Day, Menstrie Park, FK11 7BA Event Leader: Ochils Landscape Partnership team with Note: Some of the terrain will be uneven so remember Evelyn Wilson to wear suitable footwear. in June may mean we see some rain showers, Booking: No booking required - just come along! so bear this in mind! This is a FREE event! Don't forget to bring any food or drinks you may require.

Booking: Booking essential. Maximum 10 participants. Places will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. See page 3 for booking details. This is a FREE event!

6 Ochils Festival 2012 www.ochils.org.uk 7 Guided tour of Old Logie Kirk and Kirkyard Natural Art Activity Sun 10th & 17th10th& Sun Sun 10thSun

Two Norse hogback gravestones (which take their FAMILY FRIENDLY EVENT! name from their shape) confirm that there has Join Claire and Kate from Council Ranger been a centre of worship at Logie since the 11th Service and help them decorate the landscape of century. The ruined Kirk, built about 1598, was Logie. Using entirely natural materials, create your extended in 1684 and has recently been lovingly own masterpiece to leave in the outdoors for others restored. There is an interesting collection of 17th to enjoy - no artwork too big or too small! Nature century gravestones carved with early mortality and will supply everything so all you have to do is bring trades symbols. Drop in for a guided tour of the your imagination! highlights of the Kirkyard and examine records of the gravestones in the small interpretive centre, When: Sunday 10 June 2012, 1 - 4pm which has been set up in the original Watch Hut Where: We will meet in the car park at Logie Kirk (used to deter grave-robbers). (FK9 4LB) at 1pm. If you want to join us later, find us in the field between Logie Kirk and . When: Sunday 10 June and Sunday 17 June 2012 Event Leaders: Stirling Council Ranger Service: 2 - 4.30pm: drop in whenever you like - tours given Claire Bird and Kate Williamson on demand Where: Logie Old Graveyard, FK9 4LB Note: Fun for all the family - remember to dress for the Event Leaders: Eleanor and Joe Young, weather and wear suitable footwear. Logie Old Graveyard Group Booking: No booking required - just come along! Note: The ground is uneven and it may be damp This is a FREE event! underfoot (even in June), so make sure you wear suitable footwear.

Booking: No booking required - just come along! This is a FREE event!

8 Ochils Festival 2012 www.ochils.org.uk 9 Guided tour of Alva Kirkyard Hillfoots History Sun 10th & 17th & Thurs 21stThurs17th & 10th& Sun and the Johnstone Mausoleum People's stories through objects, Tues12th documents and discussions Alva Old Kirkyard is a fascinating place - as well as many interesting gravestones, the footprint of St Museums use objects to tell stories about the past, Serf's Church, rebuilt in 1632, can be seen. The and in this workshop we will look at some of the Erskine family, cousins of the Earls of Mar, had a ways it can be done. Starting with objects that burial vault beneath the church and there is a participants have brought along, we will think about plaque in memory of Dr Robert Erskine, who was how we attach stories to things, whether these Chief Physician to Tzar Peter the Great of Russia. stories be personal or part of wider public events. John Johnstone bought the Alva estate in 1775 and Please bring along a small object to discuss with had a mausoleum built c.1789. One of only four the group. This object could be something that mausolea in Scotland designed by notable architects played a part in your family's past or it might even Robert and James Adam, this contains the burials and be associated with one of the great events of world memorials of many members of the Johnstone family. history - either way, be prepared to tell us all about it! The guided tour will illuminate the stories of the We also use objects from Council's kirkyard and the many people buried there. museum collection to look at Hillfoots history.

Event Leaders: Lilias Barron and Susan Mills, Museum When: Tuesday 12 June 2012, 1-4pm and Heritage Officer for Clackmannanshire Council Where: Tillicoultry Community Centre, When: Sunday 10 June and Sunday 17 June 2012, 10.30- Institution Place, Tillicoultry, FK13 6AQ 1pm: drop in whenever you like - tours given on demand Event Leaders: Dr Mark Nixon and Susan Mills, Thursday 21 June 2012: tours at 6pm and 7pm Museum and Heritage Officer for Clackmannanshire Where: Alva Old Kirkyard, Ochil Road, Alva, FK12 5JP Council

Note: The ground is uneven and it may be damp underfoot Booking: Booking recommended. Maximum (even in June), so make sure you wear suitable footwear. 15 participants. See page 3 for booking details. Booking: No booking required - just come along! This is a FREE event! This is a FREE event!

10 Ochils Festival 2012 www.ochils.org.uk 11 A Gloomy Glen can be a Turf Place to Live: Plants and wildlife of the Devon: Tues12th a talk about archaeology in Dollar Glen a botany and photography walk 13thWed

Excavation in the summer of 2011 by the National Join Liz, Enid and Kirsty for this stroll along the Trust for Scotland (NTS) uncovered some turf built Devon Way. Liz, an experienced botanist, will structures high on the hillside overlooking Castle provide information on the natural history of the Campbell and Dollar Glen. Analyses of the pottery area. Midsummer is the best time to see a wonderful date the site to between the 13th and 15th century. display of wild flowers: roses, orchids and vetches will This is an exciting discovery because it means these be in bloom along the route. It's a great opportunity to newly found structures date to the same period as take photographs so don't forget to bring your camera. the establishment of Castle Campbell, further Enid and Kirsty will be on hand to help you get some developing our understanding of the wider historic good shots of the landscape, flora and fauna. activity in the Glen. If you take any photographs you are particularly NTS archaeologist Dr Daniel Rhodes will talk about pleased with, we can include them on our website! these discoveries and look at examples from around Scotland to better understand the history When: Wednesday 13 June 2012, 6-8pm (approx) and archaeology of Dollar Glen. Approximately 4 miles, Leisurely (see page 4) Where: This walk will begin and end at the Devon Way When: Tuesday 12 June 2012, 7.30-9pm (old railway track) beside the Devonvale Hall, Moss Where: Dollar Civic Centre, Park Crescent, Dollar, FK14 7AA Road, Tillicoultry, FK13 6NS Event Leader: Dr Daniel Rhodes, archaeologist for the Event Leaders: Liz Lavery, Enid Trevett and Kirsty McAlister National Trust for Scotland Note: Due to engineering works, we might have to Booking: Booking recommended. Maximum 90 access the Devon Way from Elistoun Drive. Sturdy participants. footwear is recommended, and remember your camera! Numbers are limited due to the size of the venue but some spaces may be available on the day. Spaces will be allocated Booking: Booking essential. Maximum 15 participants. on a pre-booked, then first-come-first-served basis on the day. Places will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. See page 3 for booking details. See page 3 for booking details. This is a FREE event! This is a FREE event!

12 Ochils Festival 2012 www.ochils.org.uk 13 Food foraging in Alva Glen Foraging innovation - Sat 16thSat nuts, nettles and knotweed 16thSat A walk on the wild side in Alva Glen will reveal some very unlikely sources of food and ingredients Join us as we learn how to create tasty food and for recipes. Join Margaret Lear's party of foragers to drinks using ingredients foraged from the Ochils explore how wild food can be sourced from trees, landscape. We will look at foods that have been shrubs, ground cover and even pond plants gathered throughout the year from a range of habitats available in June. Margaret will entertain with and explore what culinary uses 'weeds' and invasive stories about the uses of wild food and offer tips on non-native plants might have. You are welcome to safe identification and sustainable foraging. bring your own recipes and examples of your own Everyone taking part will receive a Wild Food cooking to share during the tasting session. Information Sheet. When: Saturday 16 June 2012, 2.30-4pm When: Saturday 16 June 2012, 10.30am -12.30pm Where: Alva Parklands Centre, 192 West Stirling Street, Where: Alva Glen car park, Brook Street, Alva, FK12 5JL Alva, FK12 5BG Event Leader: Margaret Lear, horticulturalist, Event Leader: Claire Templeton from Alva Ecolodge C.I.C. Plants with Purpose Note: All consumption is at your own risk. Those with Note: Remember to dress for the weather and bring a allergies should take particular care. basket or carrier bag to hold the items you have collected. Margaret will be providing tips on safe identification on Booking: Booking essential. Maximum 12 participants. the day. Participants are strongly advised NOT to eat Places will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. any foraged foods before hearing professional advice: See page 3 for booking details. all consumption is at your own risk. Those with allergies This is a FREE event! should take particular care.

Booking: Booking essential. Maximum 15 participants. Places will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. See page 3 for booking details. This is a FREE event!

14 Ochils Festival 2012 www.ochils.org.uk 15 Outdoor Survival Event for Families Ochils Yarns Sat 16th & Sun 17thSun 16th& Sat Sun 17thSun

FAMILY FRIENDLY EVENT! FAMILY FRIENDLY EVENT! Join Euan and Lisa for this fun and informal way to Come and see us at Tillicoultry Gala Day, where discover new skills and awaken some old ones. Evelyn Wilson (Heritage Interpretation Consultant) Learn how to make a camp fire, build a shelter and will be presenting the story of the local textile tie a few knots. Top it off by roasting marshmallows industry. Have a go at hand-spinning, try on a on the camp fire! medieval costume and discover some of the plants that were used for making dyes. When: Saturday 16 June and Sunday 17 June, 1.30-3pm Where: Car park, Ochils Woodland Park, Alva When: Sunday 17 June 2012, 1 - 4pm Event Leaders: Clackmannanshire Council Ranger Where: The Ochils Landscape Partnership stall at Service: Euan Hills and Lisa Ford Tillicoultry Gala Day, Tillicoultry Public Park, Park Avenue, Tillicoultry, FK13 6BW Booking: No booking required - just come along! Event Leader: Ochils Landscape Partnership team, This is a FREE event! with Evelyn Wilson

Booking: No booking required - just come along! This is a FREE event!

16 Ochils Festival 2012 www.ochils.org.uk 17 The Hillfoots and the Place-name walk from Tillicoultry to Alva Mon 18thMon 1884 Franchise Demonstrations Tues23rd Sat 19th& Join the members of the Glasgow University STIT (Scottish In the summer and autumn of 1884, a major Toponymy in Transition) project on our circular walk campaign of political demonstrations in favour of from Tillicoultry to Alva and find out about the language extending voting rights took place across Britain. and landscape history of the area through its place- True to the local traditions of radical political names. Learn about the miracles that St Serf performed activity, the working men and women of the at Tillicoultry and Alva, medieval kings and lords, and Hillfoots played their part, joining important Clackmannanshire’s industrial past. The walk will demonstrations in Alloa and Stirling as well as include a rare opportunity to see inside Tower. having political meetings of their own. In this talk, Mark Nixon will look at why and how local people When: Tuesday 19 June (World Sauntering Day!) and got involved, using banners, badges and other Saturday 23 June 2012, 10-1pm historical objects to illustrate the fervent Approximately 5 miles, Moderate (see page 4) atmosphere of the events and tell an important Where: The walk will begin and end outside the chapter in the story of the fight for the vote. Woolpack Inn, Glassford Square, Tillicoultry, FK13 6AU. The walk can also be joined at Alva Old Kirkyard (Ochil When: Monday 18 June 2012, 7.30-9pm Road, Alva, FK12 5JP) at about 11.45am. Where: Tillicoultry Community Centre, Institution Place, Event Leaders: Scottish Toponymy in Transition Tillicoultry, FK13 6AQ members, including Eila Wiliamson and Pete McNiven Event Leader: Dr Mark Nixon Note: Walkers are advised to wear stout footwear and Booking: Booking recommended. Maximum 60 bring a snack. There will also be an option to join the participants. project team for lunch after the walk at the Woolpack Numbers are limited due to the size of the venue but Inn (lunch option is at walkers’ own expense). some spaces may be available on the day. Spaces will be allocated on a pre-booked, then first-come-first- Booking: Booking essential. Maximum 25 participants. served basis on the day. Places will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. See page 3 for booking details. See page 3 for booking details. This is a FREE event! This is a FREE event!

18 Ochils Festival 2012 www.ochils.org.uk 19 FUTURE EVENT: Dig Dollar Glen

When: 9.30 – 3.30pm: 15 – 23 September 2012 (not Wed 19 Sept) Event Leader: The Ochils Landscape Partnership with the National Trust for Scotland

One of the Ochils Landscape Partnership's projects is an archaeological survey and dig above Castle Campbell in Dollar. This offers an exiting opportunity for anyone interested in archaeology or taking part in a dig. The site chosen for the excavation lies on the north- west slopes of Dollar Glen overlooking Castle Campbell. There are three areas of focus: a circular earth mound and two turf banks. The mound may be the remains of a prehistoric hut circle or a medieval building – the Genealogy / family history drop-in session National Trust for Scotland (NTS) excavated two turf Thurs 21stThurs buildings nearby last summer and we hope to compare Sept 23rd Members of Central Scotland Family History Society the sites. The turf banks are two of many across the will be on-hand to provide advice on researching slopes of the glen and it is thought they may relate to your own family's history. If you are a complete the Castle or the medieval forest of Dollar and we hope beginner, we can suggest good places to start your to try and date them. research. If you have already begun your family tree There are several ways to take part. Volunteers will be able and don’t know what to do next, advice will be to have a go at excavation, drawing, photography and offered about where you can find resources, surveying. Volunteers are welcome for some or all of the whether or not your ancestors lived in this area. week (day off Wednesday), and should book in advance There will be a small bookstall available. by contacting Kirsty McAlister (details below). Please This session will also be a great way to find out bring waterproofs, gloves, boots and a packed lunch. more about other relevant aspects of the Ochils Landscape Partnership, from a local gravestone data If you would like to view the dig there will be an Open recording project to free training in oral history skills Day on Saturday 22 September where you can find and archival research / palaeography (old handwriting). out about our discoveries. Archaeologists will be on hand to answer your questions and there will be When: Thursday 21 June 2012, 1-4pm: drop in activities to try. whenever you like - advice will be given on demand Where: Tillicoultry Community Centre, Institution Place, For those not able to visit the site there will be an Tillicoultry, FK13 6AQ exhibition in Dollar Museum, with daily updates, for the Event Leader: Central Scotland Family History Society duration of the dig. Alternatively, you can follow the progress on-line: www.ochils.org.uk Booking: No booking required - just come along! www.facebook.com/OchilsLandscapePartnership This is a FREE event! @OchilsLandscape

For more information and to express an interest in volunteering please contact Kirsty McAlister on [email protected] or 01259 452675 www.nts.org.uk/Conserve/archaeology_home.php

20 Ochils Festival 2012 www.ochils.org.uk 21 Get involved! Get Get involved in the project Contact us for more information: Contact The Ochils Landscape Partnership needs volunteers. Tel: 01259 452675 There are opportunities to take part in a range of Email: [email protected] activities from scrub clearance, tree and wild flower Postal address: Ochils Landscape Partnership, planting and dry stone walling, to writing text and Kilncraigs, Greenside Street, Alloa, FK10 1EB providing photographs for interpretation boards and the website. Many of these provide opportunities to www.ochils.org.uk learn new skills. www.facebook.com/OchilsLandscapePartnership @OchilsLandscape There will be many FREE opportunities to help you get involved.

l Training to enable you to carry out historical research: Credits one course will focus on using archives and Kirsty McAlister: Cover, P15. Fraser McAlister: P2/3, P22/23. palaeography (reading old hand-writing); and another Jane Wilson: P7. Eleanor Young: P8. Susan Mills: P10, P18. will train people in oral history skills. Terry Goddard: P12. Sheena Stone: P13 Rowan Lear: Cover, P14. l Workshops to help you interpret local heritage and Map page 6: Crown copyright. All rights reserved. maintain on-line and new media resources. ScotWays Licence Number. AL 100011826

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Clackmannanshire and Stirling Environment Trust

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