PerthshireCrieffStrathearn Local History

Back to the Past Comrie in the 1790s We are somewhat fortunate in Scotland to have   preserved on line the Incredible Statistical Accounts . The   first produced in the 1790s   were   co ordinated   by Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster in Caithness . He sent out a   structured questionnaire   to over 900 parish ministers   covering the whole of Scotland   They were asked   160 questions   in four sections covering geography and topography , population , agriculture and industrial production   and   some   miscellaneous queries . The general response   was   excellent     and a detailed portrait of the Nation   was laid   before   the General Assembly ( of the Church of Scotland ) in 1799 . We   now have an incredible   picture of the world in which our ancestors lived and worked . A time   which enables us   to   look at on the eve of both the   Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution . Further Accounts   were prepared   on the same basis   in the 1840s and 1950s

LADY MARY'S WALK AND LAGGAN HILL WALKS AROUND STRATHEARN NO. 1 This walk was a favourite of Lady Mary Murray, whose family were local landowners in the early 19th century. The route is one of the most popular in Perthshire and provides a peaceful stroll beside the beautiful River Earn, along an avenue of mature oak, beech, lime and sweet chestnut trees. Some of the larger trees are in the region of 150 to 200 years old. The walk is a delight at any time of year and is particularly photogenic in the late autumn when the beech trees are a riot of rust and gold. Herons, kingfishers, grey wagtails, oystercatchers and dippers live on the river and otters have been seen at dusk. Also watch out for trout and salmon rising on the water to feed.  Begin at the bridge in Taylor/MacRosty Park near where there is a large parking area. Turn left onto the path alongside the Turret Burn and then through a small gate to reach the banks of the River Earn,

St Fillan Historic Scenes of Perthshire Published Originally in 1880 by a Perthshire Minister (Marshall, 1880) "As we approach Loch Earn, we come to a scene consecrated by its connection with the famous St Fillan, who evangelised the country here and in the wilds of Breadalbane, and whose arm did such wonders on the field of Bannockburn. The beautiful hill covered with verdure to the top, and the green of which contrasts so strikingly with the brown and the grey of the adjacent heights, is Dunfillan, the hill of St Fillan. The rock on the top of it was the Saint’s Chair. The spring, now days at the foot of the it, was the Saint’s Well. It was originally on the top of the hill; but, disgusted with the Reformation from Popery, which, like Archbishop Laud, it regarded as rather the “ Deformation “, it removed to the foot of the hill. St Fillan drank of the waters of this Well, and blessed them. The consequence was that they were endowed with miraculous heal