Killearn Village Hall

I don't recall ever having been in the village of Killearn before today, but we met up with Cailean and Georgie for (his birthday) lunch at the Old Mill, which was excellent and was chosen because it is both dog friendly, and about half way between ourselves and Edinburgh.   

Coming from the west , the first view you get of the village is this one and it tells a story about the village's history .   The white building and extension is the village hall, but part of it was the "new Kirk" built  in 1826 , only to be replaced sixty years later by an even newer and bigger Kirk, which is on the right.

The modern addition was SRDP funded  , and that was a rural development programme using EU monies that I was involved in as Environment Minister almost twenty years ago.     It is a very fine looking structure, and although we didn't go in, the pictures  on line of the view from it are also stunning.

Killearn is the birthplace of George Buchanan, the sixteenth century scholar and historian who had a profound influence on the Scottish reformation and , accordingly, on what Scotland was and became..   

I suppose, thinking about it, the churches in the picture rather emphasise that point.