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Outlander filming locations Season 1
Have you
been following the Outlander series (season 1-5) since 2014? Or have you just started
watching Season 1? This gripping time travel historical show is quite a binge-worthy
one and once you start watching, it is really difficult to stop. Its storyline
and execution is really par-excellent and what makes it more indispensable are
the real-life locations where it has been shot. We are sure, like millions of
Outlander fans out there, by now you must have also fallen in love with the locations
that make the show ever-more real and believable.
Where was Outlander season 1 filmed?
Most of the
real-life locations that have been used in the Outlander series are in the UK and Scotland. The ones used n Season 1 are listed below:
Dunmore Park House
It is the place where Claire is shown in the opening scenes of the series nursing the
wounded soldiers. The same place where she learns that World War II is over and
she can go back to her normal life, back to living with Frank (her husband that
she has met only 10 times in 5 years). It is part of the Scottish village of Dunmore
which is 47 minutes drive from Edinburgh.
Falkland as Inverness
It is the place where the series open – the place where Frank and Claire arrive for their
second honeymoon. Falkland has been used as the lovely Inverness in Season 1 of
Outlander and is just a small drive from Edinburgh. It has all the locations
where Claire and Frank visit including the place where they stay – Covenanter Hotel
which has been used as Mrs. Baird’s B & B.
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Kinloch
Rannoch as Craigh na Dun
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Doune Castle as
Clare
adventure in the past starts the very minute she runs away from Craigh Na Dun
and finds herself face to face with Black Jack Randal – Frank Randal (her husband’s
nefarious ancestor). Almost sexually assaulted, she is saved by a Scot who
takes her to his master (MacKenzie chief) and party, one of which is Jamie Frazer
(our hero). At the end of the first episode, she finds herself inside Castle Leoch – the very seat of MacKenzie Clan. Doune
Castle is the place that is used as Castle Leoch in the series.
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Tulloch Ghru
The place
where Claire meets Dougal, Jamie, and other MacKenzie (after she is rescued by
one of their men, by chance), is Tulloch Ghru. The same place where she asks
Jamie about Inverness and he says that she is staring right at it. It is a
part of Cairngorms National Park.
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Culross West Kirk
When
Clare starts working as a healer at Castle Leoch (as Liard won’t let her go
because he thinks she is a spy), she finds that Miss Fitz's grandchild is ill and
possibly dying.
Everyone thinks that he is possessed and is said to have visited Black Kirk, a place that locals thinks is devil lair. Culross West Kirk has been used as the Black Kirk.
Everyone thinks that he is possessed and is said to have visited Black Kirk, a place that locals thinks is devil lair. Culross West Kirk has been used as the Black Kirk.
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Culross /
Cranesmuir
After
visiting the Kirk Claire visits the child’s family in Cranesmuir – a town
located next to Castle Leoch. It is also
the place where she meets Geillis Duncan, another lady from the future,
something she finds quite late.
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Highland Folk
Museum
Highland
Folk Museum is used as a MacKenzie village one of the many which MacKenzie men
visit in order to collect rents. Claire, by now is not the guest but is
working as a healer at Castle Leoch and Douglas forces her to come with them.
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Finnich
Glen – Devil’s Pulpit
While
collecting rents, a red coat follows them and after a while, the man appears
with his captain. Claire is taken and Douglas comes along. It is the second time
when Claire meets Randal. Randal assaults her but Douglas is able to take her
away. However, she is supposed to meet Randal the next day again for
investigation.
Douglas
takes her to Liar’s spring to check that she is saying the truth about not
being a spy. Finnich Glen is used as Liar’s spring. In order to save her from Randall, he tells
her to marry Jamie – that way she will be a Scot and by law will not have t
follow what Randal asked them.
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Glencorse Old
Kirk
It is the place where Claire and Jamie are wed. This church is located in Midlothian, on
the south of Edinburgh.
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Blackness Castle
Blackness
Castle was used as Fort William, the place where Claire is taken by the Red
Coats. Jamie and the groups, after Claire’s marriage with him, decide to meet the
man who has the information that can help Jamie in proving himself innocent. He
leaves her with one of his cousins and when she sees Craigh Na Dun in the
distance she runs for it and is captured just as she is about to touch the
stones. She is taken to Fort Williams, right into the hands of Jack Randall.
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Roslin Glen
Country Park
Roslin
Glen Country Park is the place where Claire and Jamie argue after he rescues
her from Jack Randal. He grates her ears for not listing to him and putting her
and his family in danger.
Hopetoun House
Hopetoun
House is used as Residence Duke of Sandringham’s residence in Scotland where Claire
goes to meet him. Later Jamie also visits with Murtagh to seek his help in
getting a pardon from the British crown and be a free man again.
Duke of Sandringham
agrees and asks Jamie to be by his side during his duel with the MacDonalds. After the duel, things get heated up verbally between
Jamie and the MacDonalds men and they end up fighting. Jamie gets hurt.
Midhope Castle
After
getting hurt at Duke of Sandringham’s residence, Claire patched him up and he
is summoned by the Liard. Geillis Duncan kills her husband so that she can be
with Douglas, but the Liard doesn’t approve and he sends Douglas away and Jamie
is told to follow him everywhere he goes.
Geillis
Duncan and Claire end up amidst a witch trial; Jamie saves her. Claire ends up
telling JAMIE everything. He takes her to Craigh Na Dun so that she can go back
to her time; instead, Claire decides to go to Lallybroch with him, Jamie’s
ancestral house. Midhope Castle is used as Lallybroch.
Tibbermore
Church
Carlisle Castle
It is
used as the courtyard of Wentworth Prison where Jamie and Taran MacQuarrie are
shown as they witness hangings of one man after the other, awaiting their own end.
Linlithgow Palace
& Bamburgh Castle
These two
places have been used as Wentworth Prison where Jamie is physically and
sexually assaulted by Black Jack Randal. While the indoor scenes are fled at Linlithgow
Palace, Bamburgh Castle’s facade is used as Wentworth Prison’s exterior (as
seen from a distance).
Aberdour Castle
It is
used as the Abbey where Jamie is taken after he is rescued from Wentworth
Prison by Claire and the MacKenzie men.
Reaper
Reaper boat
has been used as the ship that Claire, Jamie, and Murtagh board for France. It
is used in the ending of season one, right after they leave the Abbey where
Claire tends to Jamie’s wounds inflicted by Black Jack Randal. During the ending scenes, on the same boat,
Claire declares that she is pregnant.
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