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(The spelling as two words, 'Glen Eagles', is as shown on UK Ordnance Survey maps.) The name's origin has nothing to do with eagles, and is a corruption of eaglais or ecclesia, meaning church, and refers to the chapel and well of Saint Mungo, which was restored as a memorial to the Haldane family which owns the Gleneagles estate. [1]
Gleneagles Hotel is a hotel near Auchterarder, Scotland.It was commissioned by the Caledonian Railway and opened in 1924. The bandleader Henry Hall performed at the hotel before the Second World War during which it served as a military hospital.
The hotel’s Autumn Adventure & Activity Pass runs through November and features field archery, an owl exhibition, a guided moorland walk and stargazing, as Helen Wilson-Beevers discovers
Auchterarder (/ ɒ x t ə r ˈ ɑː r d ər / ⓘ; Scottish Gaelic: Uachdar Àrdair, meaning Upper Highland) is a town north of the Ochil Hills in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, and home to the Gleneagles Hotel. The 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-mile-long (2.5-kilometre) High Street of Auchterarder gave the town its popular name of "The Lang Toun" or Long Town.
Muthill, pronounced [ˈmjuːθɪl], is a village in Perth and Kinross, Perthshire, Scotland.The name derives from Scottish Gaelic Maothail meaning “soft-ground”.. The village lies 3 miles (5 kilometres) south of Crieff, just west of the former railway line connecting Crieff with Gleneagles.
Gleneagles may refer to: Glen Eagles, a valley in Scotland; Gleneagles Hotel, Auchterarder, Scotland Gleneagles Agreement, signed and held at the Gleneagles Hotel; The 31st G8 summit held in July 2005 at Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland; Gleneagles railway station, serving both Gleneagles and Auchterarder
The hotel served as the location for the G8 summit in 2005 and is a well-known golf resort; Gleneagles hosted the 2014 Ryder Cup. In anticipation of the 2014 Ryder Cup, Gleneagles railway station underwent a major refurbishment as part of a £7 million program to improve transport infrastructure in the area.
Killiechassie is a country estate and house near Weem, about one mile (two kilometres) northeast of Aberfeldy, [3] in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. The estate lies on the banks of the River Tay [ 4 ] in some 12 acres (5 hectares), about 74 miles (119 kilometres) north of Edinburgh .