Category: Perthshire
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What Happens When a Scottish Earl Falls in Love With Germany
Some buildings serve a purpose. Kinnoull Tower is not one of them — and that is precisely the point. Perched on a rocky outcrop near the 222-metre summit of Kinnoull Hill, above the winding River Tay outside Perth, the tower is a folly.  It was never a fortress. Nobody defended it. Nobody lived in…
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Ben Vrackie
The secluded Loch a’ Choire, with the 841m high Corbett, Ben Vrackie, serving as a picturesque backdrop. Ben Vrackie — the ‘speckled hill’. Loch a’ Choire is in fact a reservoir, first shown on OS maps in the 1920s. The rationale behind its damming remains elusive; I suspect a potential motive might be centred on…