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The history behind Outlander beauty spots Finnich Glen and the Devil's Pulpit

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It's the ethereal Scottish glen that has appeared in Outlander season one as the 'Liar's Spring'. Now, thanks to its starring role, it attracts up to 70,000 visitors a year.

With its moss green walls and blood-red waters, Finnich Glen is an otherwordly location that is hidden away on farmland in Stirling.

Despite the fact it doesn't have its own visitor centre and can be hard to find, Outlander fans still flock to see where the famous scene with Dougal MacKenzie (Graham McTavish) and Claire Fraser (Caitriona Balfe) was filmed.Home to the ominously named Devil’s Pulpit, the dramatic natural gorge with vertical drops and slippery entrance steps has a spooky history of druidic rituals and sheltering covenanters in their wars with the royalist troops.The hidden red sandstone gorge lies just north of Glasgow and is known for entrancing all who have visited it, with the Devil's Pulpit being the name given to the mysterious circular-shaped rock which rises from the Carnock Burn which flows through the glen.It's been linked to witches, druids and even stories of sermons from the devil himself, so much so that the steps leading down to the glen are also known as the Devil's Steps.The gorge has been chosen as a setting for everything from interactive plays to scenes from Detective Pikachu, Netlix film King Arthur: Legend of the Sword and TV show The Nest.But it was its appearance in the hit TV show 'Outlander' that really propelled its tourism appeal.Its towering walls of rock were the backdrop for the scene in season one in which character Dougal uses the 'truth-inducing waters' of 'St Ninian’s Spring’, also known as 'Liar’s Spring', to make sure he believed and trusted the time travelling Claire Randall.This surge in popularity

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