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Almondbank
Almondbank is a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, about 4+1⁄2 miles (7 kilometres) northwest of Perth. It is part of the Strathtay Ward in Perth & Kinross Council.
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Pitcairngreen
Pitcairngreen (pronounced 'Pit-cairn Green') is a hamlet in the Scottish council area of Perth and Kinross which is more or less adjoined to the much larger village of Almondbank. It lies 4 miles (6 kilometres) northwest of Perth. As its name would suggest, two features of the settlement are a green and a cairn.
In the 18th century the nearby River Almond was used to power textile mills and the local nobleman Lord Lynedoch created the village to provide housing for mill workers. The village's layout was designed in 1786 to have a green at the centre of it by James Stobie, a factor to John Murray, the 4th Duke of Atholl. The presence of a village green is unusual for a Scottish village as these are more commonly associated with traditional English villages. Stobie designed Pitcairngreen to be an industrial textile manufacturing village for Thomas Graham, a textile manufacturer. Its rivalry with the Manchester textile factories is set out in the poem "The Scottish Village, or Pitcairngreen" by Hannah Cowley which starts with the lines:
"Go Manchester and weep thy slighted loom
its arts are cherished now in Pitcairne Green."
There is a prehistoric burial cairn to the north-east of the village which is made from boulders from the River Almond.
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Almondbank railway station
Almondbank railway station served the village of Almondbank, in the Scottish county of Perth and Kinross.
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RAF Methven
Royal Air Force Methven, or more simply RAF Methven, was a World War 2 Royal Air Force Satellite Landing Ground (SLG) located 1.6 miles (2.6 km) south east of Methven, Perth and Kinross, Scotland and 4.1 miles (6.6 km) west of Perth, Perth and Kinross.
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Bertha Park
Bertha Park is an area within the city of Perth, Scotland. It occupies a 333 hectares (820 acres) area of former farmland bounded by the River Almond to the south, and Bertha Loch to the north.