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Meikleour
Meikleour ( ) is a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It lies near the confluence of the River Tay, Tay and the River Isla, Perthshire, Isla in the valley of Strathmore, Angus, Strathmore, north of Perth, Scotland, Perth and south of Blairgowrie and Rattray, Blairgowrie. It is in the parish of Caputh, Perth and Kinross, Caputh. Meikleour is home to the Meikleour Beech Hedges, Meikleour Beech Hedge, which was planted in 1746. The hedge is said to be the longest and tallest in the world and runs alongside the A93 road from Perth to Blairgowrie. The hedge is on the edge of the estate of Meikleour House, which itself is designated as an outstanding level of interest environment by Historic Environment Scotland. A substantial Neolithic cursus called Cleaven Dyke is nearby. The Meikleour Arms, on an Old Military Road, is a Category B listed building dating to 1820. Other features of the village include a 17th century mercat cross and a tron (Scotland), tron, complete with jou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meikleour Arms
Meikleour Arms (also known as the Meikleour Arms Hotel) is a Category B listed building in Meikleour, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It dates to 1820, and is a single-storey building, built mostly of ashlar Ashlar () is a cut and dressed rock (geology), stone, worked using a chisel to achieve a specific form, typically rectangular in shape. The term can also refer to a structure built from such stones. Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, a ... stone. In 2022, the hotel was awarded the Guest Accommodation of the Year for Scotland award by The AA. See also * List of listed buildings in Perth and Kinross References External links Meikleour Arms official websiteMEIKLEOUR HOTEL (MEIKLEOUR DISCRETIONARY TRUST, ELIZABETH FORSYTH TENANT)- Historic Environment Scotland {{DEFAULTSORT:Meikleour Arms Hotel Category B listed buildings in Perth and Kinross Buildings and structures in Perth and Kinross 1820 establishments in Scotland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meikleour Beech Hedges
The Meikleour Beech Hedge(s) (European Beech = ''Fagus sylvatica''), located near Meikleour, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, was planted in the autumn of 1745 by Jean Mercer and her husband Robert Murray Nairne on the Marquess of Lansdowne's Meikleour estate. It is said the hedge grows towards the heavens because the men who planted it were killed at the Battle of Culloden. The hedge lies alongside the A93 Perth- Blairgowrie Road, and can be viewed by visitors all year round. In 1906 Henry John Elwes and Augustine Henry, in the first volume of their ''Trees of Great Britain and Ireland'', mention the "celebrated beech hedge of Meikleour" as one of the most striking effects produced by the beech in Scotland. "This hedge forms the boundary between the grounds and the highway, and has to be cut in periodically, which is done by men working on a long ladder, from which they are able to reach with shears to about 60 feet. Local history says that this hedge was planted in 1745, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Isla, Perthshire
The River Isla () is a tributary of the River Tay in Angus and Perthshire, Scotland. It rises in the Grampians before flowing down through Glen Isla into the Valley of Strathmore. After a course of 46 miles (74 km), it falls into the Tay near Meikleour. Its tributaries include the Ericht. Gallery File:River Isla near Fergus - geograph.org.uk - 5825291.jpg, The river flowing through Glen Isla File:Reekie Linn falls in late Autumn - geograph.org.uk - 2149819.jpg, Reekie Linn falls File:Isla Ericht confluence.jpg, The confluence of the Isla and the Ericht File:Bridge of Couttie (geograph 7144789).jpg, The Bridge of Couttie, near Coupar Angus File:River isla Meikleour.jpg, The river at Meikleour Meikleour ( ) is a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It lies near the confluence of the River Tay, Tay and the River Isla, Perthshire, Isla in the valley of Strathmore, Angus, Strathmore, north of Perth, Scotland, Perth and south of Bl ... File:River Isla (left) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A93 Road
The A93 is a major road in Scotland and the highest public road in the United Kingdom. It runs north from Perth, Scotland, Perth through Blairgowrie and Rattray, then through the Grampian Mountains (Scotland), Grampian Mountains by way of Glenshee, the Cairnwell Pass and Glen Clunie to Braemar in Aberdeenshire. At Braemar, the road then switches east down the strath of the River Dee, Aberdeenshire, River Dee before crossing the A90 and terminating in Aberdeen. Route Leaving Perth, the A93 continues through the planned 19th-century village of Guildtown before crossing the River Isla, Perthshire, River Isla and passing the Meikleour Beech Hedges. north lies Blairgowrie and Rattray, the largest town in Perth and Kinross, where the road crosses the River Ericht. up Glenericht it reaches the little village of Bridge of Cally and begins the long climb up into Glenshee. At this point, it climbs from Glenshee onto the moors of Glenbeg and the snow gates at Spittal of Glenshee, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercat Cross
A mercat cross is the Scots language, Scots name for the market cross found frequently in Scotland, Scottish cities, towns and villages where historically the right to hold a regular market or fair was granted by the monarch, a bishop or a Baron#Scotland, baron. It therefore served a secular purpose as a symbol of authority, and was an indication of a burgh's relative prosperity. Historically, the term dates from the period before Acts of Union 1707, 1707, when the Kingdom of Scotland was an independent Sovereign state, state, but it has been applied loosely to later structures built in the traditional architectural style of crosses or structures fulfilling the function of marking a settlement's focal point. Historical documents often refer simply to "the cross" of whichever town or village is mentioned. Today, there are around 126 known examples of extant crosses in Scotland, though the number rises if later imitations are added. History The earliest documentary reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caputh, Perth And Kinross
Caputh ( ) is a parish and village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It lies on the A984 Coupar Angus-to-Dunkeld road, about southeast of Dunkeld and west of Coupar Angus. It stands on the banks of the River Tay. The parish includes the East Cult standing stones. A 120m wide cairn, known as Cairnmore, was removed to facilitate farming in the 19th century. Remains of an important Roman fort still exist nearby at Inchtuthill. Cleaven Dyke is near Meikleour, in the same parish, and was long-thought to be Roman too, but is now regarded as being a substantial Neolithic cursus. Dunkeld was partly in Caputh parish until 1891.''Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Graphic and Accurate Description of Every Place in Scotland'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts of the world. This "Neolithic package" included the History of agriculture, introduction of farming, domestication of animals, and change from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to one of sedentism, settlement. The term 'Neolithic' was coined by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, Sir John Lubbock in 1865 as a refinement of the three-age system. The Neolithic began about 12,000 years ago, when farming appeared in the Epipalaeolithic Near East and Mesopotamia, and later in other parts of the world. It lasted in the Near East until the transitional period of the Chalcolithic (Copper Age) from about 6,500 years ago (4500 BCE), marked by the development ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jougs
The jougs, juggs, or joggs (, from Latin , a yoke) is a metal collar formerly used as an instrument of punishment in Scotland, the Netherlands and other countries. When the soldiers of Oliver Cromwell's army occupied Scotland, they were horrified at the church using such a punishment, and many were removed from church walls and destroyed.Martin, Daniel (2016). ''Upper Clydesdale. A History and Guide'' Birlinn, Edinburgh, Scotland. p. 22. Purpose The jougs was an iron collar fastened by a short chain to a wall, often of the parish church, or to a tree or mercat cross. The collar was placed around the offender's neck and fastened by a padlock. Time spent in the jougs was intended to shame an offender publicly. Jougs were used for ecclesiastical as well as civil offences. Some surviving examples can still be seen in their original locations in Scottish towns and villages. Jougs may be the origin of the later slang word "jug", meaning prison. Examples Sir Walter Scott rescued th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tron (Scotland)
A tron was a weighing beam in medieval Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland, usually located in the marketplaces of burghs. There are various roads and buildings in several Scottish towns that are named after the tron. For example, Trongate in Glasgow and Tron Kirk in Edinburgh. Etymologically the word is derived from the Old French ''tronel'' or ''troneau'', meaning "balance". Measurement of weight in medieval Scotland From the 12th century the city fathers of Scottish burghs needed to standardise weights and measures, partly to collect the correct taxation on goods, and partly to stop unscrupulous merchants shortchanging citizens. Trons were set up in marketplaces throughout Scotland. Each burgh had its own set of weights, which sometimes differed from those of other burghs. Some burghs had more than one tron; in Edinburgh a butter tron was located at the head of the West Bow, while a salt tron was located further down the Royal Mile. See also *Obsolete Scottish units of measurem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Category B Listed
This is a list of Category A listed buildings in Scotland Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ..., which are among the listed buildings of the United Kingdom. For a fuller list, see the pages linked on List of listed buildings in Scotland. Key The organization of the lists in this series is on the same basis as the statutory register. County names are those used in the register, and in the case of Scotland they parallel the current administrative areas. Category A listed buildings in Scotland See also * List of castles in Scotland * List of country houses in the United Kingdom * List of hillforts in Scotland * List of historic sites in Scotland * List of monastic houses in Scotland * List of National Trust for Scotland properties * List of post-war Category A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cursus
Cursuses are monumental Neolithic enclosure structures comprising parallel banks with external ditches or trenches. Found only in the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, relics within them indicate that they were built between 3400 and 3000 BC, making them among the oldest monumental structures on the islands. The name 'cursus' was suggested in 1723 by the antiquarian William Stukeley, who compared the Stonehenge cursus to a Roman circus, Roman chariot-racing track, or Roman circus, circus.''The Stour Valley: a Prehistoric Landscape''. Colchester Archaeological Group. Cursuses range in length from to almost . The distance between the parallel earthworks can be up to . Banks at the terminal ends enclose the cursus. Over fifty have been identified via aerial photography while many others have doubtless been obliterated by farming and other activities. The Stonehenge Cursus is a notable example within sight of the more famous Stonehenge stone circle. Other examples are the four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
