Callendar House dates from the 14th Century. It is set in the nationally-important historic designed landscape of Callendar Park which also contains a section of the Antonine Wall. This wall was Rome's Northern Frontier to protect Rome's northern boundaries and keep out the Scottish heathen.
The house covers 11th to the 19 centuries. We traveled through 3 floors with historical themes in each. The most enjoyable part was the kitchen restored to 1825 grandeur. I tried to pick up one of the cooking pots and could not. It was about 4 times a normal soup size pot and didn't even have anything inside it. I would not have passed as a cook there. They did not have men in the kitchen then so the ladies must have been super strong.
The house was originally owned by the Livingston family and then by the Forbes family. In the late 1960's it was purchased by the Falkirk Council and has been established as a historical site.
Don't you love the French Renaissance style?
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The grounds of the house contain a pitch and putt course, crazy golf, a children'ts adventure playground (with the largest slide in Scotland.), a boating lake and the Antonine Wall.
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