Category Outlander

Factual guides to the Outlander filming locations around South Queensferry, Edinburgh, and nearby areas. Includes site histories, access details, and accurate location information for visitors exploring the show’s real Scottish settings. Midhope Castle, Hopetoun House, Blackness Castle.

Outlander Filming Locations in Culross

View of Culross town square and the ochre walls of Culross Palace, used in Outlander as the village of Cranesmuir.

Culross, just across the Firth of Forth from South Queensferry, was transformed into Cranesmuir for Outlander — the village where Claire meets Geillis Duncan, and where the series first reveals its darker political undercurrents. From the Mercat Cross and palace…