Cargill railway station

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Cargill railway station was in the Scottish county of Perth and Kinross. The station was opened by the Scottish Midland Junction Railway running between Perth and Arbroath.

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River Isla, Perthshire

The River Isla is a tributary of the River Tay in Angus and Perthshire, Scotland. It rises in the Grampians before flowing down through Glen Isla into the Valley of Strathmore. After a course of 46 miles, it falls into the Tay near Meikleour. Its tributaries include the Ericht.

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Kinclaven Bridge

Kinclaven Bridge is a bridge in Kinclaven, Caputh parish, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Completed in 1905, it has been a Category B listed structure since 1981. It has six arches, which are made of concrete; the cutwaters and remainder of the bridge is of ashlar.

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Meikleour Beech Hedges

The Meikleour Beech Hedge, located near Meikleour, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, was planted in the autumn of 1745 by Jean Mercer and her husband Robert Murray Nairne on the Marquess of Lansdowne's Meikleour estate. It is said the hedge grows towards the heavens because the men who planted it were killed at the Battle of Culloden. The hedge lies alongside the A93 Perth-Blairgowrie Road, and can be viewed by visitors all year round. In 1906 Henry John Elwes and Augustine Henry, in the first volume of their Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, mention the "celebrated beech hedge of Meikleour" as one of the most striking effects produced by the beech in Scotland. "This hedge forms the boundary between the grounds and the highway, and has to be cut in periodically, which is done by men working on a long ladder, from which they are able to reach with shears to about 60 feet. Local history says that this hedge was planted in 1745, and that the men who were planting it left their work to fight at the battle of Culloden, hiding their tools under the hedge, and never returning to claim them.[52] It is 580 yards long, and composed of tall, straight stems planted about 18 inches apart, and nearly touching at the base. The average height of the trees, as I am informed by Mr. Donald Matheson, is 95 feet, and their average girth at 3 feet is 18 to 36 inches. He adds that "close to the ground they are as fresh and green as a young hedge." An illustration of this hedge, taken specially for our work by Mr. D. Milne of Blairgowrie, gives a good idea of its appearance in October 1903.". The hedge is noted in the Guinness World Records as the tallest and longest hedge on earth, reaching 30 metres in height and 530 metres in length. It is usually trimmed once every ten years, although the most recent trim, which took place in late 2019, was the first in almost 20 years.

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Ballathie House

Ballathie House is a 19th-century mansion in Perthshire, Scotland. It is located around 9 miles north of Perth, and 5.5 miles west of Coupar Angus, close to the River Tay. The present house was built in 1886, and since 1972 it has operated as a country house hotel.

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Meikleour House

Meikleour House is a country house on the Meikleour estate near Meikleour, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. The present house, which incorporates an 18th-century core, was remodelled in 1869–70 by David Bryce, and is protected as a Category B listed building. The house stands within the Inventory-listed designed landscape of the Meikleour Beech Hedges, on a terrace overlooking the River Tay.

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History

Opened by the Scottish Midland Junction Railway, which was later absorbed by the Caledonian Railway, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. Passing on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, it was then closed by the British Transport Commission.

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Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M. Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137. "Cargill railway station on navigable O.S. map".