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Carse Of Gowrie
The Carse of Gowrie is a stretch of low-lying country in the southern part of Gowrie, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It stretches for about along the north shore of the Firth of Tay between Perth and Dundee. The area offers high-quality agricultural land and is well known as a major area for strawberry, raspberry and general fruit growing. Fruit is easy to cultivate in the area because of its southerly aspect and low rainfall. It has been suggested that monks brought new varieties of apples and pears to the area in the Middle Ages and there may have been vineyards growing on slopes near the River Tay. Landscape The landscape of the Carse was created by glacial process and for part of the Mesolithic period the Carse of Gowrie was under water. Fertile fluvioglacial soils made the Carse a good place to settle and farm. Groome's Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland, dating from the mid-1880s, describes Carse of Gowrie as having consisted of a series of isolated mounds, known as inches, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinnaird, Gowrie
Kinnaird (, "high headland") is a village in Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. It is notable for its 15th-century castle. The four-storeyed Kinnaird Castle was a stronghold of the Threiplands of Fingask, a local Jacobite family. The castle was restored heavily by then owner Stuart Stout in the 1960s, and was later the venue for his 1988 wedding to Audrey Gregory, who reportedly became "known as the Lady of Kinnaird". The area is also home to an early-19th-century parish church. In the 18th century, it was the home of the Reverend James Adams, who contributed to the Marrow Controversy in the church of Scotland. The Carse of Gowrie The Carse of Gowrie is a stretch of low-lying country in the southern part of Gowrie, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It stretches for about along the north shore of the Firth of Tay between Perth and Dundee. The area offers high-quality agricultu ..., in which the village is located, is an agricultural district of Perthshire. Notable people * Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pow Of Inchaffray
The Pow of Inchaffray (also known as the Pow Water) is a drainage ditch in Strathearn, Scotland. It is approximately long and drains of fertile agricultural land. The Pow dates back to the Middle Ages and was dug on the orders of the canons of the nearby Inchaffray Abbey; it was expanded under permissions granted by Robert the Bruce. A drainage commission became responsible for the Pow in 1696 under an act of the Parliament of Scotland. This body, the only local drainage commission in Scotland, continues to maintain the Pow and collect revenue from local landowners. A modernised act to govern the commission was passed in 2018. Description The Pow starts at Methven Moss and runs in a south-westerly direction for until it meets the River Earn near to Innerpeffray, about to the south-east of Crieff. The Pow's drainage basin is which includes 79 residential properties, 21 agricultural properties and 2 commercial properties. It has ten major tributaries which total appro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinfauns Railway Station
Kinfauns railway station served the village of Kinfauns, Perthshire, Scotland, from 1847 to 1950 on the Dundee and Perth Railway. History The station opened on 24 May 1847 by the Dundee and Perth Railway The Dundee and Perth Railway (D&PR) was a Scottish railway company. It opened its line in 1847 from Dundee to a temporary station at Barnhill and extended to Perth, Scotland, Perth station in 1849. It hoped to link with other railways to reach Ab .... The goods yard was to the northeast. The station closed to both passengers and goods traffic on 2 January 1950. References Disused railway stations in Perth and Kinross Former Caledonian Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1847 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1950 1847 establishments in Scotland 1950 disestablishments in Scotland {{PerthKinross-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glencarse Railway Station
Glencarse railway station served the village of Glencarse, Perth and Kinross, Scotland from 1847 to 1956 on the Dundee and Perth Railway. History The station opened on 24 May 1847 by the Dundee and Perth Railway The Dundee and Perth Railway (D&PR) was a Scottish railway company. It opened its line in 1847 from Dundee to a temporary station at Barnhill and extended to Perth, Scotland, Perth station in 1849. It hoped to link with other railways to reach Ab .... The goods yard was to the east and to the south was Pitfour Brick and Tile Works. The station closed to both passengers and goods traffic on 11 June 1956. The station house still stands. References Disused railway stations in Perth and Kinross Former Caledonian Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1847 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1956 1847 establishments in Scotland 1956 disestablishments in Scotland {{PerthKinross-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Errol Railway Station
Errol railway station served the village of Errol, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, from 1847 to 1985 on the Dundee and Perth Railway. History The station opened on 24 May 1847 by the Dundee and Perth Railway The Dundee and Perth Railway (D&PR) was a Scottish railway company. It opened its line in 1847 from Dundee to a temporary station at Barnhill and extended to Perth, Scotland, Perth station in 1849. It hoped to link with other railways to reach Ab .... The goods yard was to the north and it consisted of four sidings. The signal box, which was built in 1890, was to the west. The station avoided the fate of others on the line in the 1950s and 1960s, but by the early 1980s was served by just a handful of services each weekday (and none on Sundays). British Rail issued statutory closure notices for the station in the summer of 1984 and it closed to both passengers and goods traffic on 30 September 1985. Both the station house and the 1877 signal box still survive, each being l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inchture Railway Station
Inchture railway station served the village of Inchture, Perth and Kinross, Scotland from 1847 to 1956 on the Dundee and Perth Railway. History The station opened on 24 May 1847 by the Dundee and Perth Railway The Dundee and Perth Railway (D&PR) was a Scottish railway company. It opened its line in 1847 from Dundee to a temporary station at Barnhill and extended to Perth, Scotland, Perth station in 1849. It hoped to link with other railways to reach Ab .... A passenger tramway served Inchture Village to the north. The trams and the tramway started from one of the tramways in the station's good yard. The station closed to both passengers and goods traffic on 11 June 1956. References Disused railway stations in Perth and Kinross Former Caledonian Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1847 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1956 1847 establishments in Scotland 1956 disestablishments in Scotland {{PerthKinross-railstation-stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Invergowrie Railway Station
Invergowrie railway station is a railway station which serves the village of Invergowrie, west of the city of Dundee, Scotland on the north bank of the Firth of Tay. It is the only intermediate station between Dundee and Perth, on the Glasgow to Dundee line, approximately from Dundee station – and only around from the city's western boundary – and just over from Perth. ScotRail, who manage the station, provide all the services. History It was built by the Dundee and Perth Railway, a constituent company of the Scottish Central Railway and later the Caledonian Railway and opened in 1848. It has been threatened with closure on several occasions since the 1950s, narrowly avoiding the Beeching Axe and being reprieved again by British Rail in 1985 (unlike neighbouring , which closed in September that year). Transport Scotland Transport Scotland () is the national transport agency of Scotland. It was established by the Transport (Scotland) Act 2005, and began operating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Standard-gauge Railway
A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of . The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge (after George Stephenson), international gauge, UIC gauge, uniform gauge, normal gauge in Europe, and SGR in East Africa. It is the most widely used track gauge around the world, with about 55% of the lines in the world using it. All high-speed rail lines use standard gauge except those in Russia, Finland, Uzbekistan, and some line sections in Spain. The distance between the inside edges of the heads of the rails is defined to be 1,435 mm except in the United States, Canada, and on some heritage British lines, where it is defined in U.S. customary/ British Imperial units as exactly "four feet eight and one half inches", which is equivalent to 1,435.1mm. History As railways developed and expanded, one of the key issues was the track gauge (the distance, or width, between the inner sides of the rail heads) to be used, as the wheels of the rolling stock (locomoti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dundee And Perth Railway
The Dundee and Perth Railway (D&PR) was a Scottish railway company. It opened its line in 1847 from Dundee to a temporary station at Barnhill and extended to Perth, Scotland, Perth station in 1849. It hoped to link with other railways to reach Aberdeen and changed its name to the Dundee and Perth and Aberdeen Railway Junction Company, but this early attempt was frustrated, and for some years it failed to make a physical connection with other railways in Dundee. It was taken over by the larger Scottish Central Railway in 1863. Most of its main line is still in use today as the Perth to Dundee section of the railway network. History The first railways By 1840 Dundee was already served by two railways: the Dundee and Newtyle Railway had opened in 1831, connecting the city and harbour with the fertile agricultural area of Strathmore, Angus, Strathmore. The line had three rope-worked inclines with the sections either side operated by horses, and it had primitive stone block sleeper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A90 Road
The A90 road is a major north-to-south road in eastern Scotland, running from Edinburgh to Fraserburgh, through Dundee and Aberdeen. Along with the A9 road (Scotland), A9 and the A82 (road), A82 it is one of the three major north–south trunk roads connecting the Central Belt to northern destinations. The A90 is not continuous: there is a gap between Dalmeny and Perth, but the M90 motorway, M90 connects those two places. Background The creation and development of the A90 road has to be understood in terms of the development of the economy of the North-East of Scotland, which had resulted in an increase in traffic along the route between Perth and Aberdeen. In recognition of this, in 1979, the British government announced that it was giving priority to the upgrading of the route to dual carriageway standard. It had already been decided that the trunk route between Dundee and Stonehaven, which had previously followed the same route as the railway line between the two towns, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Tay
The River Tay (, ; probably from the conjectured Brythonic ''Tausa'', possibly meaning 'silent one' or 'strong one' or, simply, 'flowing' David Ross, ''Scottish Place-names'', p. 209. Birlinn Ltd., Edinburgh, 2001.) is the longest river in Scotland and the seventh-longest in Great Britain. The Tay originates in western Scotland on the slopes of Ben Lui (), then flows easterly across the Highlands, through Loch Dochart, Loch Iubhair and Loch Tay, then continues east through Strathtay (see Strath), in the centre of Scotland, then southeasterly through Perth, where it becomes tidal, to its mouth at the Firth of Tay, south of Dundee. It is the largest river in the United Kingdom by measured discharge. Its catchment is approximately , the Tweed's is and the Spey's is . The river has given its name to Perth's Tay Street, which runs along its western banks for . Course The Tay drains much of the lower region of the Highlands. It originates on the slopes of Ben Lui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wesley
John Wesley ( ; 2 March 1791) was an English cleric, Christian theology, theologian, and Evangelism, evangelist who was a principal leader of a Christian revival, revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent Methodist movement that continues to this day. Educated at Charterhouse School, Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford, Wesley was elected a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1726 and ordination, ordained as an Anglican priest two years later. At Oxford, he led the "Holy Club", a society formed for the purpose of the study and the pursuit of a devout Christian life. After an unsuccessful two-year ministry in Savannah, Georgia, he returned to London and joined a religious society led by Moravian Church, Moravian Christians. On 24 May 1738, he experienced what has come to be called his evangelical conversion. He subsequently left the Moravians and began his own ministry. A key step ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
