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Perthshire is known as the "big county", or "the Shire", due to its roundness and status as the fourth largest historic county in Scotland. It has a wide variety of landscapes, from the rich agricultural straths in the east, to the high mountains of the southern Highlands .
Perth & Clackmannan Shires. 1854. Civil Parish map. Perthshire was one of the largest counties, whereas Kinross-shire was one of the smallest; it was the least populous Scottish county in the 1921 census. [5] In 1930 the county councils for Perthshire and Kinross-shire were combined for most purposes.
Map of places in Perth and Kinross compiled from this list This list of places in Perth and Kinross is a list of links for any town, village, hamlet, castle, golf course, historic house, nature reserve, reservoir, river, canal, and other place of interest in the Perth and Kinross council area of Scotland. Beinn a Ghlo, Grampians Birks of Aberfeldy Blair Castle Castle Menzies Drummond Castle ...
The name Perth derives from a Pictish word for 'wood' or 'copse', related to the Welsh perth, meaning 'hedge' or 'thicket'. [10] During much of the later medieval period, it was known colloquially by its Scots-speaking inhabitants as St John's Toun or Saint Johnstoun because the church at the centre of the parish was dedicated to St John the Baptist. [11]
Caputh (/ ˈ k eɪ p ə θ / KAY-pəth) is a parish and village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It lies on the A984 Coupar Angus-to-Dunkeld road, about 6 miles (10 kilometres) southeast of Dunkeld and 8 miles (13 kilometres) west of Coupar Angus. [1] It stands on the banks of the River Tay. [2] The parish includes the East Cult standing stones. [3]
Gowrie (Scottish Gaelic: Gobharaidh) is a region in central Scotland and one of the original provinces of the Kingdom of Alba. [1] It covered the eastern part of what became Perthshire . It was located to the immediate east of Atholl , and originally included the area around Perth (and the ancient Scottish royal sites of Scone ), though that ...
Tulloch, formerly known as Bleachfield, [1] is a residential area of Perth, Scotland, approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north-west of the city centre.Tulloch is the western part of the area that borders Hillyland.
Abernethy is a village and former burgh in the Perth and Kinross council area and historic county of Perthshire, in the east central Lowlands of Scotland.The village is situated in rural Strathearn, 8 miles (13 km) south-east of the city of Perth, near the River Earn's confluence with the River Tay and on the northern edge of the Ochil Hills.