More of Dundee’s hidden treasures will be explained to the city’s people and visitors alike on a new heritage walking tour.
Created by Dundee Historic Environment Trust director Adam Swan, it is divided into six areas and introduces 33 different points of interest along its route.
The “City Braes” walk is the latest in a series of Dundee heritage walking guide leaflets.
It explores the surrounds of the city centre: from the East Port, up the route of the Dens Burn to Forebank and then past Hilltown to Chapelshade Gardens, up to the Dudhope Estate and around Dudhope Castle, before finally heading down through the Scouring Burn area to the West Port.
Adam said: “Many of those I have tried out the walk with, including local members of the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland, discovered that it took them to parts of Dundee, such as Victoria Bridge over the Dens and the viewing platforms behind Upper Dens, which they had never previously seen.”
The walking guide series was the brainchild of the late Professor Charles McKean, who started leading popular tours through Dundee closes.
He wanted Dundonians and visitors to the city to explore the historic routes for themselves and he wrote the City Centre and its follow up West End walks.
A third walk, Broughty Ferry, was written by local historian Nancy Davey, who sadly died in May of this year.
Inspiration for the latest walk came from the Victorian historian Alexander Maxwell’s 1884 description of the braes, which he said formed the background to the town.
The leaflets are available from Dundee libraries and museums or through the website www.dundeeheritagewalk.com.
For more on this story, see Friday’s Courier.