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Upload another image Coll-Earn Castle Hotel, Hunter Street And High Street 56°17′59″N 3°42′12″W / 56.299773°N 3.703447°W / 56.299773; -3.703447 (Coll-Earn Castle Hotel, Hunter Street And High Street) Category B 21358 Upload Photo Auchterarder House 56°18′43″N 3°41′55″W / 56.311899°N 3.698539°W / 56.311899; -3.698539 (Auchterarder House ...
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.
The oldest surviving house (recently restored) dates from the 1730s. The fountain at the centre of the village dates from 1874 and was gifted by Alexander Martin, a former Dunning resident, who made his fortune in New Brunswick as a confectioner. It includes interesting stone carvings in a medieval style, including an otter eating a trout.
Old Kincardine Castle was a 13th-century castle near Auchterarder in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. The castle was located on a promontory overlooking the glen. Sir David de Graham of Cardross received the lands of Kincardine from the Earl of Strathearn and started construction of the castle shortly afterwards. It formed a quadrangle, surrounded ...
Turner, Alexander (1859). The Scottish Secession of 1843 : being an examination of the principles, and narrative of the contest, which led to that remarkable event. Edinburgh: Paton and Ritchie. Walker, Norman L. (1895). Chapters from the History of the Free Church of Scotland. Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier.
The facility was financed by a gift from Andrew Thomson Reid (1863-1940) of Auchterarder House. [2] It was intended to be a memorial to his father, who had founded the Hyde Park Locomotive Works in Glasgow, [3] and his mother. [2] It was designed by Stewart & Paterson [4] and opened in 1926. [2]
The post Disruption church was served by Rev Alexander Moorhead 1843 to 1869 and was replaced by Rev George Paulin. He was replaced by Rev John Edgar Cairns of County Mayo in 1907. [5] The ruins of the pro-Reformation church lie to the north-east of the current church. The Post-Reformation church was run by the Presbytery of Auchterarder until ...
Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home and 6th Lord Home (c. 1566 – 5 April 1619), was a Scottish nobleman and Lord Warden-general of all the March.He succeeded as the 6th Lord Home, a Lord of Parliament in the Peerage of Scotland, in 1575, and he was created Earl of Home in the Peerage of Scotland in 1605.