While Moat Brae in Dumfries, where he spent much of his youth, the gardens surrounding the house were described as ‘enchanted lands’ that inspired much of the mythos around Peter Pan including the villianous pirates. Growing up in a small whitewashed cottage surrounded by his seven brothers and sisters, author and creator of Peter Pan, JM Barrie was inspired by the stories of his mother and his surroundings to take up a career in writing. Peter Pan and Tinkerbell played by Morvin Terrace and Jorja Lindsay at the official opening of the National Centre for Children's Literature and Storytelling at Moat Brae (Image: Neil Hanna/D&G Standard) Slains Castle, Aberdeenshire - inspired the layout for the castle in Bram Stoker's Dracula How to see it: The battle site itself is free to visit but, to make the most of your trip, check out the Visitor Centre where you'll find a museum with artefacts from the battle itself, and a 360-degree battle immersion theatre that puts you in the heart of the battle. The little cottage that survived the battle of Culloden and inadvertently inspired Outlander's Diana Gabaldon.She revealed that it made her realise that if she expected her protaganist to survive Culloden then his 'last name better be Fraser' - (she'd already been inspired to call him Jamie after a Dr Who character ). Culloden provided the inspiration for Sam Heughan's character Jamie (Image: Sony/Starz)Īs well as providing inspiration for the setting for pivotal scenes in her hugely popular Outlander novels, Diana Gabaldon learned another exciting fact about Culloden through Eric Linklater's book 'The Prince in the Heather', which tells the story of Bonnie Prince Charlie.ĭiana Gabaldon told the National Geographic in 2014, that, while reading the book as part of her research for Outlander, she was inspired by a passage which states that after two days, wounded Jacobite warriors who had hidden in a nearby farmstead were taken out and shot, except one man, 'a Fraser of the Master of Lovet's regiment', who survived the slaughter.

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