Harrietfield is a village near Glenalmond in Perth and Kinross. It is about 9 miles (14 km) north-west of Perth. It has been suggested that the village was built in 1822 as a planned community for mill workers
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Glenalmond College is a co-educational independent boarding school in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, for pupils aged between 12 and 18 years. It is situated on the River Almond near the village of Methven, about 8 miles west of the city of Perth. The college opened in 1847 as Trinity College, Glenalmond and was renamed in 1983. Originally a boys' school, Glenalmond became co-educational in the 1990s.
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Glenalmond or Glen Almond is a glen which stretches for 40 km to the west of the city of Perth in Perth and Kinross, Scotland and down which the River Almond flows. 'Almond' is an old Brittonic word for river, with no connection to the nut.
The upper half of the glen runs through bare mountainous country and is virtually uninhabited whilst the lower, easterly section of the glen is gentler terrain, well-wooded with some rich agricultural land. The change in character takes place as the river crosses the Highland Boundary Fault, leaving the Grampian Highlands for the Central Lowlands. The River Almond enters the River Tay just north of Perth.
The head of Glen Almond is dominated by the Shee of Ardtalnaig, an island hill flanked by glacial breaches cut by ice overflowing from the upper Tay basin. This may account for one of the largest and densest clusters of Rock Slope Failures in Britain, with 33 RSFs at an average
size of 0.20 sq km, the most dramatic towering above Conichan. The lower of these two passes is followed by the Rob Roy Way through to Ardtalnaig on Loch Tay. Although the glaciated upper valley is steep-sided, it cuts through moorlands which rise gently to Ben Chonzie on the south, the only 'Munro', and the 'Corbett' Creagan na Beinne on the north. Midway down the upper glen, a remarkably bold ravine cuts NE from Auchnafree through Glen Lochan to Glen Quaich; it is lined with large RSFs.
A short middle section of Glen Almond takes a NW-SE dogleg down to the Highland Boundary, and is known as the Sma' Glen,. The A822 road takes advantage of this deeply incised section of the glen to forge a route between Crieff and Strathbran, much as General Wade's Military Road did in the middle of the eighteenth century.
Lower Glenalmond is the location for Glenalmond College, a private boarding school.
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The Battle of Methven took place at Methven, Scotland on 19 June 1306, during the Wars of Scottish Independence. The battlefield was researched to be included in the Inventory of Historic Battlefields in Scotland and protected by Historic Scotland under the Scottish Historical Environment Policy of 2009, but was excluded due to the uncertainty of its location.
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Methven railway station served the village of Methven, Perth and Kinross, Scotland and was located between the city of Perth to the east and the town of Crieff to its west. It was the western terminus of the Perth, Almond Valley and Methven Railway line and opened on 1 January 1858.
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Methven is a large village in the Scottish region of Perth and Kinross, on the A85 road due west of the city of Perth. It is near the village of Almondbank. The village has its own primary school, church, bowling club, community halls, playing field with sports facilities and skate-park, and a variety of businesses.
There is a local primary school in the village, and a large co-educational boarding and day independent school nearby, called Glenalmond College, described by The Good Schools Guide as providing an "outstanding" quality of education.
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The village is home to The Drumtochty Tavern, which is thought to be around 200 years old. The tavern is closed at present. There was also a Free Church of Scotland in the village until 1995, when it was closed.