{"id":153,"date":"2013-09-07T16:50:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T16:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/?p=153"},"modified":"2013-10-15T10:12:06","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T10:12:06","slug":"journey-to-inchmahome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/2013\/09\/07\/journey-to-inchmahome\/","title":{"rendered":"Journey to &#8230; Inchmahome"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_154\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Inchmahome.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154\" src=\"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Inchmahome.jpg\" alt=\"Inchmahome\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Inchmahome.jpg 600w, https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Inchmahome-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Inchmahome-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inchmahome Island<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lake_of_Menteith\" title=\"Lake of Menteith\" target=\"_blank\">Lake of Menteith<\/a> is located in the Carse of Stirling, a flood plain at the upper reaches of the rivers Forth and Teith. The name is believed to be due to a corruption by 16th-century Dutch cartographers of the Lowland Scots Laich o Menteith, where &#8220;laich&#8221; simply means &#8220;low place&#8221; since Loch is the common term but it could also have been changed after the area became a popular tourist attraction in the 19th century, due to the writings of Walter Scott and the arrival of influx of English railway visitors. <\/p>\n<p>The largest island  on the lake is Inchmahome, home to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inchmahome_Priory\" title=\"Inchmahome Priory\" target=\"_blank\">Inchmahome Priory<\/a>, an ancient monastery founded in 1238 for a small community of Augustinian monks. The priory was built; church first with impressive processional doorway, a bell tower in the nave, choir with an unusual three-seat sedilia, cloister buildings and chapter house. The site is now maintained by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historic-scotland.gov.uk\/propertyplan\/propertyabout.htm?PropID=pl_157&#038;PropName=Inchmahome%20Priory\" title=\"HS Inchmahome\" target=\"_blank\">Historic Scotland<\/a> with a small ferry to take visitors to the buildings remains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lake of Menteith is located in the Carse of Stirling, a flood plain at the upper reaches of the rivers Forth and Teith. The name is believed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,26,23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historic-scotland","category-journey-to","category-photography","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}