Museum Represents a museum WC Yes EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Scotlandwell HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear No DisabledAccess Yes Activities Join a guided tour of the airfield, facilities and operations (weather dependant!) on Doors Open Day.Guided tours every 2 hours, booking essential via www.dod_portmoak.eventbrite.co.uk (10 spaces per tour) OpeningTime1 11:00-16:00 OpeningTime2 11:00-16:00 IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 13459 Refreshments No Street The street address The Scottish Gliding Centre AddressLine2 Portmoak Airfield Postcode KY13 9JJ Parking No DisabledWC Yes LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Scottish Gliding Centre & Portmoak Priory site Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived perthkinross Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 3251 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.18777,-3.327012; Description An account of the resource Situated on the eastern shores of Loch Leven, the Scottish Gliding Centre is the largest gliding club in Scotland. It operates all year round from a grass airfield and membership is open to all. Once home to the early Christian Culdees, Portmoak Chapel dates back to about 850AD.The monks were of Irish origin and established a monastery on nearby St. Serf's Island in Loch Leven. We will continue to add to our knowledge of this site through archaeological investigations this summer. The vestiges of the chapel and graveyard have been recently restored by the Kinross-shire Civic Trust.