Glen Eagles (
Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic ( gd, Gàidhlig ), also known as Scots Gaelic and Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well ...
: Gleann na h-Eaglais/Gleann Eagas) is a
glen which connects with
Glen Devon to form a pass through the
Ochil Hills
The Ochil Hills (; gd, Monadh Ochail is a range of hills in Scotland north of the Forth valley bordered by the towns of Stirling, Alloa, Kinross, Auchterarder and Perth. The only major roads crossing the hills pass through Glen Devon/ Gl ...
of
Perth and Kinross in
Scotland
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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
eagle
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s, and is a corruption of ''eaglais'' or ''
ecclesia'', meaning church, and refers to the chapel and well of
Saint Mungo
Kentigern ( cy, Cyndeyrn Garthwys; la, Kentigernus), known as Mungo, was a missionary in the Brittonic Kingdom of Strathclyde in the late sixth century, and the founder and patron saint of the city of Glasgow.
Name
In Wales and England, this ...
, which was restored as a memorial to the
Haldane family which owns the Gleneagles estate.
Gleneagles House at the northern entrance to Gleneagles comprises a 1750 extension to an earlier 17th-century building that is approached by an avenue of lime trees planted to commemorate the
Battle of Camperdown. Little remains of Gleneagles
Castle, the early 16th-century
tower house
A tower house is a particular type of stone structure, built for defensive purposes as well as habitation. Tower houses began to appear in the Middle Ages, especially in mountainous or limited access areas, in order to command and defend strateg ...
of the Haldanes.
The
Caledonian Railway Company used its name for the
Gleneagles Hotel and
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...
course they built some distance from the glen at the edge of
Auchterarder. The
hotel
A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a re ...
hosted the
31st G8 summit conference in July 2005.
Gleneagles railway station, formerly known as Crieff Junction, is on the line between
Perth
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth i ...
and
Stirling
Stirling (; sco, Stirlin; gd, Sruighlea ) is a city in central Scotland, northeast of Glasgow and north-west of Edinburgh. The market town, surrounded by rich farmland, grew up connecting the royal citadel, the medieval old town with its me ...
. As its name suggests, this was the junction for the
Crieff Junction Railway, which closed in 1964.
See also
*
Gleneagles Agreement
*
Gleneagles Hotel
References
External links
Viewthrough Glen Eagles to the
Gleneagles Hotel, named after the glen.
History of the G8– UK government site
Valleys of Perth and Kinross
Glens of Scotland
Auchterarder
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