This is another way to kill the tourist goose that lays the golden egg. http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/anger-over-bothwell-bridge-battle-site-building-plan-1-3026550 Incredible that this important part of Lanarkshire history will be allowed to be ‘desecrated,’ for that is what it will amount to. The Battle of Bothwell Bridge is not only an historical event, but many think that without the stand of the Covenanters, ergo Presbyterians, it very well could be that Episcopacy might have become the established church in in Scotland, as in England. The Church of Scotland, The Kirk, in law, is the national church in Scotland, but not the established church, and as a result is not under state control. The Battle of Bothwell Bridge, therefore, represents an independent Scottish church/religion, and its significance should not be diminished by greedy land/housing developers. Some great Lanarkshire families that fought with the Covenanters during the ‘Killing Times’: Hamilton, Cargill, Balfour, and of course Robert Cameron, after whom the Cameronians, the ‘radical Presbyterians,’ shall we say, took their name. Covenanters not killed were imprisoned in the open air on land beside Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, with many transported to the colonies. Maisie