Welcome to
Scottish Reformation Tours

a site dedicated to providing holiday and educational tours of Scotland focusing

on the Reformation and Covenanter History.

We specialise in organising customised, affordable, hassle-free Tours for church groups with an emphasis on bringing a challenge from history and applying it to our lives today.

You can either come on one of our pre-organised Tours or we would be delighted to organise a tour for you and a party from your church.

If you want us to organise a Tour for you, the process is simple, view our sample tours in ‘What we offer’ section, fill out our no-obligation, online questionnaire and we’ll do our best for you.

Recent Tour Reports

One-Day Tour of Edinburgh & St. Andrews - 28th March 2008

We had a great One Day Tour with a lovely couple from Maine.  With an interest in Reformation history, Scott and Ruth also run a B&B – and were using their holiday in Great Britain to compare and contrast their Inn back home with their Scottish counterparts! 

While we usually take one day for each of these intensive sites, Scott and Ruth thought they were up to the challenge of doing both in one day.  So we started out 7:30 a.m. to meet them and tour Edinburgh, and returned at about 10:00 p.m. after touring St. Andrews. 

We looked at the life of John Knox and the Scottish Reformation of 1559-1560.  We visited St. Giles, viewed the Knox house, studied the symbolism of both Knox’ unmarked grave in space 23 of the parking lot, and the “Caesar statue” of King Charles II – outside St. Giles. 

We then went to the National Museum of Scotland to see 1st and 2nd Reformation artifacts.  Greyfriars Kirkyard was next, with its many famous monuments and sites.  Forty-five minutes in Magdalen Chapel with Sinclair Horne of the Scottish Reformation Society (site of Scotland’s 1st General Assembly!) was followed by a trip to the Grassmarket, and the Covenanter’s Monument there. 

Then we left for St. Andrews.  On the way, we stopped off in Leuchars to see Alexander Henderson’s first church, and hear the story of his life. 

Then into St. Andrews, where we covered the martyr sites of Patrick Hamilton and George Wishart, and the Castle (where Knox was captured and enslaved), the Cathedral and Trinity Parish Church where Knox first preached. 

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Youth Tour of Edinburgh - 22nd March 2008

Saturday, 22 March, Reformation Tours took a combined group of young people from Reformed Presbyterian Churches in Ireland and Scotland on a tour of Edinburgh.  We covered the special roles of John Knox and Alexander Henderson in Edinburgh’s reformation story at St. Giles, and then saw artifacts at the National Museum of Scotland – like Jenny Geddes’ stool and “Sandy” Peden’s preaching mask.  At Greyfriars we spoke of the significance of the National Covenant, not only for 1638, but also for the next century.  We then finished, appropriately, in the Grassmarket, meditating on the Covenanter’s courage – which so often led to their martyrdom for Christ’s Kingdom.

What others have said about our Tours.

“Thank you so much for your discourses on the Scottish Reformation. The presentations were both inspiring and challenging.
If we Christians knew Christ as the ‘Covenanters’ knew him then our churches would grow.”
Alice L.

“The highlight of the past year for my wife and I was participating in the Reformation Tour which you organised for us in August.

It not only informed our minds but more significantly it refreshed our heart love for the Lord Jesus and His people. Thank you so much.”
Ben C.