Sunday Times Where Was I? Holiday Competition

Near as I can figure it, through the possibly flawed perceptual filters of my own reality tunnel, the most likely answers this week, seem to me to be:

Q1. Innerpeffray

Q2. Drummond Castle

The initial clues appear to place us in the hamlet of Innerpeffray, which lies around three miles 南東of Crieff, in Scotland. Innerpeffray sits on the 北 bank of the thirty two mile long 'River Earn' and is the site of one of Scotland's oldest free lending libraries, which according to some of the sources I checked, seems to have been founded c 1680, by David Drummond, third Lord Madertie. Drummond was the brother in law of David Graham, first Marquis of Montrose. Innerpeffray castle is thought to be of 15th century origin and from the photographs I looked at, the stonework still seems to be in good condition.

Four miles  西 of Innerpeffray, lies Drummond Castle and the fortress and its gardens, were used in the nineteen ninty five film 'Rob Roy', as the location for the home of the Marquis of Montrose (played by a great British actor, called John Hurt).

The Gask ridge lies  東 of Innerpeffray and some sources claim that a line of Roman signal towers stretched along it, from the fort of Strageath to the fort at Bertha, near Perth. Some OS maps show a line of signal stations, starting at Innerpeffray and following the route of the Roman road to the  東.

The 東ender, surmises that manning the signal stations, may not have been the most popular duty for the fort's personnel, as they would likely be standing in a wooden tower for hours on end, in the howling wind and very vulnerable to attack by disgruntled locals, direwolves, kelpies, barrow wights, Lannisters, etc

N.B. Due to the number of people who normally write poison pen letters in green ink posting on his page, the  東 ender has moved to moderated comments but rest assured, if you have a non abusive post or quip relating to the puzzle and its solution, he will endeavour to publish it.