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Outlander castles tours

Jamie Fraser , Broch Tuarach

Take our private tour of Outlander’s Lallybroch with Private tours Edinburgh – just one of Scotland’s amazing Outlander castle film locations . Is there a real Lallybroch in Scotland ? Find out on our unique tour of Lallybroch , a 500 year old castle which became a key location in the life of Jamie Fraser. Outlander Tours from Edinburgh can be booked by phone or Whatsapp us on +447305-294773.

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Special Offer – book your Lallybroch tour now for £32.50 per person . Unique private and custom tour bookings for the autumn . Phone or Whatsapp us on +447305-294773 for more details and availability or contact us online .

Tours start at 10 am . Our private group tours take up to four people to three Outlander castle filming locations. We also offer bespoke private tours with the option of choosing your own itinerary . In just five hours you can have the perfect  Outlander day trip .

Tours start from locations in Edinburgh for a private group of one to four people

  • Normal pickup point is Edinburgh city centre , your hotel , the airport or port .
  • Shore excursions – pickup from Rosyth, South Queensferry and Newhaven port. Ideal Day trip from Edinburgh

For more details about availability phone +44-131 549 9785 / +44-7305-294773 . Outlander tours from Edinburgh are available six days a week . Outlander tours of Scotland .

  Private tours Edinburgh . Phone +44131-549-9785 for more details or contact us online .

 Phone (+44) 0131-549-9785 for availability , details and bookings or contact us online . Tickets for each location must be pre-booked in advance online – more ticket details here .

Your driver /guide gives you the history of each castle , details of the episodes filmed at each location and other points of interest on the journey . Check availability of this tour now Each tour features

  • music – the Outlander theme song plus Scottish music
  • photography and videos – we help customers to take the best possible pictures on their trip
  • information abut Scottish culture and arts
  • Lallybroch souvenirs are available, speak to your driver for details

Other pickup points can be arranged .

  • visit the real Lallybroch – Midhope Castle, ancestral home of Jamie Fraser , Broch Tuarach
  • Linlithgow Palace  – Wentworth Prison
  • Blackness Castle – Fort William
  • half day Outlander Tours from Edinburgh
  • Take in unique views of three historic castles featured in Outlander
  • Small private group tour with up to of four people
  • Outlander tours from Edinburgh

Shore excursions Edinburgh – all of our tours are available as shore excursions from the Edinburgh ports of South Queensferry, Newhaven and Rosyth . Daytime phone number +44131 549 9785.

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Itinerary

On this tour we visit three key locations used for filming the hit series Outlander. Based on the best selling novels by Diana Gabaldon, Outlander is filmed in a number of locations in castles and towns in Scotland.

Lallybroch – Midhope Castle

The first location on this Outlander tour is Lallybroch – Midhope Castle , Broch Tuarach Jamie Fraser’s ancestral home . Outlander scenes were shot at Midhope Castle on the fringes of the Hopetoun Estate near South Queensferry.

Midhope was built in the 15th Century and was built by John Martyne, laird of Medhope. It was rebuilt in the mid 1600s and remains much the same today.

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Visitors are asked to enjoy Midhope from the outside as the interior is inaccessible . In Outlander Jamie calls Claire Sassenach as a term of affection .

Midhope Castle, a 15th century tower house, is used as Lallybroch (also known as Broch Tuarach) in Outlander . Left to Jamie by his parents, Brian and Ellen, Lallybroch is also home to Jamie’s sister, Jenny, her husband Ian Murray and their children. With Lallybroch being an important part of the Outlander story, much use is made of Midhope Castle.

Lallybroch Castle tours can be booked on

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Linlithgow Palace

This royal palace is the birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots and it became the backdrop for some of the most harrowing scenes of the TV show Outlander .

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

Built in the 1400s and 1500s, the now-ruined palace is set among the spectacular surrounds of Linlithgow Loch and Peel.

Blackness Castle goes back to 1440 . The castle provides the setting for Fort William, as the original fort no longer exists.

The castle is long and narrow because of the shape of the rock on which it is situated and it is sometimes called ‘ the ship that never sailed ‘ . It guards the bay at Blackness and is only a few miles from Linlithgow Palace . The first castle was built in the middle of the 15th century by Sir George Crichton , Earl of Caithness , a member of one of the most powerful families in Scotland .

This tour from Private tours Edinburgh costs from £95 . Souvenir photos, t-shirts , phone cases and gifts can be bought at www.privatetoursedinburgh.com

Private tours Edinburgh are COVID secure and Good to Go.

Our photo tours of Scotland set off from Edinburgh and feature visits to the top scenic locations in the Highlands of Scotland. Perfect for iPhone and DSLR users with a passion for landscape photography ( and Instagram ) . Your guide will give you his unique Insights into Scottish culture ,music and art including Jack Vettriano

Who can solve the mystery of Craigh na Dun ?

Find out more about our full range of Outlander tours Scotland

Exclusions

  • tour escort
  • lunch
  • entrance tickets

Day trip from Edinburgh

For more details phone +44131 549 9785 or contact us online .

All bookings are subject to our standard terms and conditions – bookings can be postponed by contacting us online or cancelled up to 2 days before the date of the tour with a full refund. Whatsapp +447305294773 , phone +44131-549-9785 for more details and availability or contact us online .

Your tour guide is David , an experienced tour guide and travel photographer. He is a landscape photographer on Pictures of Scotland

Your guide will give you his unique Insights into Scottish culture ,music and art including best selling artist Jack Vettriano of Singing Butler and Lunchtime Lovers fame .

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Doune Castle pictures

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. Visit Doune Castle on a unique private tour of Outlander film locations .

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doune castle tours

Doune is one of the best preserved medieval castles in Scotland.
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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.

The hall is accessed from the courtyard via a stair up to a triangular lobby, which in turn links the hall and kitchens by means of two large serving hatches with elliptical arches, unusual for this period. The kitchen tower, virtually a tower house in its own right, is 17 metres (56 ft) by 8 metres (26 ft). The vaulted kitchen is on the hall level, above a cellar. One of the best-appointed castle kitchens in Scotland of its date, it has an oven and a 5.5-metre (18 ft) wide fireplace. A stair turret, added in 1581 and possibly replacing a timber stair, leads up from the lobby to two storeys of guest rooms. These include the “Royal Apartments”, a suite of two bedrooms plus an audience chamber, suitable for royal visitors.

Doune Castle has featured in several literary works, including the 17th-century ballad, “The Bonny Earl of Murray”, which relates the murder of James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray, by the Earl of Huntly, in 1592. In Sir Walter Scott’s first novel, Waverley (1814), the protagonist Edward Waverley is brought to Doune Castle by the Jacobites. Scott’s romantic novel describes the “gloomy yet picturesque structure”, with its “half-ruined turrets”.

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The castle was used as a location in MGM’s 1952 historical film Ivanhoe which featured Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor. The BBC adaptation of “Ivanhoe” in 1996 also featured Doune as a location. The castle was used as the set for Winterfell in the TV series Game of Thrones (2011–present), an adaptation of the A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels by George R. R. Martin. The castle was used as a stand-in for the fictional “Leoch Castle” in the TV adaption of the Outlander series of novels.

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Lallybroch / Midhope Castle Outlander tours

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Midhope Castle, a 16th-century tower house, is used as Lallybroch (also known as Broch Tuarach) in Outlander . Left to Jamie by his parents, Brian and Ellen, Lallybroch is also home to Jamie’s sister, Jenny, her husband Ian Murray and their children. With Lallybroch being an important part of the Outlander story, many scenes were filmed at Midhope Castle. Outlander tours

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We see this iconic location several times. Our introduction to Lallybroch comes in a flashback scene during the second episode of season one , when Jamie attempts to rescue Jenny from the Redcoats, only to end up being whipped and carried off to Fort William. Later in episode twelve , Jamie returns with Claire. Then, in season 2 we see Claire and Jamie return home after their time on France.

In season three we find out that the story of Lallybroch is not yet finished. After Culloden, Jamie is returned home, where he hides from the British before eventually surrendering to the army.

Midhope Castle is located in Abercorn, just west of South Queensferry, on the Hopetoun estate. It is every bit as impressive as Lallybroch, with the familiar approach and entrance to the building.

If you’re looking for a glimpse of the ancestral home of Jamie Fraser you won’t find the real Lallybroch deep in the Highlands.
Scenes were shot at Midhope Castle on the fringes of the Hopetoun Estate near South Queensferry.
Midhope was built in the 15th Century and was built by John Martyne, laird of Midhope. It was rebuilt in the mid 1600s and remains much the same today.
Visitors are asked to admire Midhope from a distance as the interior remains largely derelict, although exciting new plans have been announced for the refurbishment of the castle so visitors can stay in Lallybroch .

Midhope Castle is the external location for fictional Lallybroch, the family home of character Jamie Fraser , and it is located on the Hopetoun Estate .  Midhope Castle, also known as Broch Tuarach ,  dates back to the 15th Century and although the exterior is relatively intact the castle is derelict inside.

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Outlander film location tours in Scotland

Outlander film location tours

Filming is currently under way for series four of Outlander .
Most of the filming has taken place in locations around Scotland . We have identified 11 separate locations where filming has taken place . Can you add any more to our list ?
Go to the bottom of this post to see our film locations list. Outlander tours can be booked on the Private Tours Edinburgh website .

DRUMMOND CASTLE

Drummond Castle Gardens, Perthshire, doubles as the palace of Versailles in the series Outlander

Drummond Castle Gardens, near Crieff, Perthshire, doubles as the magnificent pleasure grounds of the French royal palace in a new episode of time travelling drama Outlander.The grounds, which date back to 1630, are considered “the best example of formal terraced gardens in Scotland”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now they feature in VisitScotland’s new online guide to Outlander locations.The map contains 11 new sites which feature in the second series of the drama, based on the bestselling novels by American author Diana Gabaldon and starring Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan.Much of the action in the second series of Outlander is set in France, where the Frasers take on a new way of life after leaving Scotland.

DRUMMOND CASTLE

The stunning grounds date back to 1630

However, locations such as Drummond Castle Gardens — as well as Gosford House in East Lothian, Glasgow Cathedral and Dysart Harbour in Fife — served as ideal substitutes for French scenes.

Drummond Castle Gardens, which are protected as a category A listed building — in contrast to the B listed castle — already attract thousands of visitors per year, and are included on the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland.The gardens — complete with peacocks — feature ancient yew hedges and the remaining beech tree planted by Queen Victoria in 1842.But the grounds — which also featured in 1995 feature film Rob Roy, starring Liam Neeson — could now see a huge boost in tourist numbers thanks to the so-called “Outlander effect”.
Fans from throughout the world flock to filming locations.Head gardener Edith Barnes said: “The team here puts a lot of effort into making the gardens look their best and we’re delighted that fans of the series got to see them on screen in all their glory.”We hope visitors will see the hard work for themselves and maybe even be transported to another place and era through their beauty.”Outlander centres around Claire Randall, a World War Two combat nurse living in the 1940s with her husband Frank. On a second honeymoon to Inverness, Claire goes to a stone circle and is mysteriously swept back in time to the Scottish Highlands in 1743.View more Drummond Castle Pictures

DRUMMOND CASTLE

The gardens are protected as a category A listed building – unlike the B listed castle

She meets a young Scottish warrior, Jamie Fraser, and falls for him, leaving her torn between her 18th and 20th century lives.Although the storyline moves to France in the second series, Scotland still provides much of the stunning scenery.Fans of the hit Sony Pictures TV show can follow in the footsteps of Jamie and Claire and visit locations shot in regions such as Dumfries and Galloway, Fife and and The Trossachs.The new map is VisitScotland’s biggest ever guide to Outlander sites, and also includes 18 locations from series one.Drummond Castle Pictures by David Rankin

Outlander castles tour

Blackness Castle(Fort William)

Drummond Castle Gardens (Palace of Versailles) (May – Oct only)

Midhope Castle ( Lallybroch )

Tibbermore Church (Witch Trials)

Hopetoun House (Duke of Sandringham & French scenes S2) (April-Oct)

Tullibardine Chapel (Where Rupert loses his eye)

Culross (Cranesmuir)

Falkland (Inverness)

Linlithgow Palace (Wentworth Prison)

Dysart (Le Harve)

Castle Leoch (Doune)