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Skinnergate is a street in the city of Perth, Scotland. Along with Watergate, it is one of the oldest streets in the city. [1] It runs for around 0.76 miles (1.22 km) from Bridge Street in the north to High Street in the south. [2] Its name is derived from the process of skinning animals and the tanning of their hides during the Middle Ages.
Perth Royal Infirmary, Nurses Home With Recreation Room And Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers And Gates 56°23′43″N 3°27′04″W / 56.395302°N 3.451127°W / 56.395302; -3.451127 ( Perth Royal Infirmary, Nurses Home With Recreation Room And Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers And
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.
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]
Aberargie is recorded in the Pictish Chronicle as part of Nechtan's land grant in 460AD, and may have been in existence for much longer. Aberargies' place in most history books is as a small part of the bigger Parish of Abernethy, but there was at one time a thriving community, based on the utilisation of the River Farg to power water mills for various purposes from sawing timber to the ...
St John's Place Kirkside (former) The northern side of Perth City Hall, looking east along St John's Place from King Edward Street in 2010. St John's Kirk stands beyond City Hall Length 0.094 mi (0.151 km) Location Perth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland West end King Edward Street East end St John Street Construction Completion 12th century St John's Place (formerly known as Kirkside) is an ...
Comrie lies within the registration county of Perthshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Pheairt) and the Perth and Kinross local council area.The name Comrie derives from the original Gaelic name con-ruith or comh-ruith (from con/comh 'together', and ruith "to run", "running") translating literally as "running together", but more accurately as "flowing together" or "the place where rivers meet".