Route Description
Leave Alyth Cyclery via Chapel Street, passing the Pack Bridge - the oldest bridge in Alyth. Continue out of town on Bamff Road through the beautiful Den o’Alyth to West Tullyfergus. From here, the route joins a gravel track leading to a small loch and continues through Drimmie Woods on a mix of paths. Some sections can be muddy and more technical, before the trails widen towards the edge of the woodland.
The route then follows Bonnington Road, passing one of the area’s largest megaliths - the impressive Kynballoch Stone. Shortly before reaching Rattray, a path offers a useful shortcut into the town. From here, continue along Old Mill Road to join the Strathmore Cycle Network route back towards Alyth, passing an old mill and several fruit farms along the way.
A short stretch on quiet roads leads to a cycle path on the north side of the River Ericht. Continue via Blacklaw Road and Netherton Road, passing the Strathmore Golf Centre, before returning on a pleasant gravel track to the A94. From here, cross Market Muir and continue to cross the Alyth Burn on a bridge and complete the loop back at Alyth Cyclery.
Navigation
Difficulty
Straightforward
40% off-road
Linked Routes
Points to visit
Along the way you will find these points of interest:
Lossett Inn
One of Scotland’s oldest Inns. A listed building, the Lossett Inn or Creel has been a Drover’s Inn since 1760. At that time, Alyth was larger than Blairgowrie and had nine fairs a year, many more than most market towns, so the Lossett would...
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A permanent reminder of a bygone custom. This street name immortalises the bygone custom of the herdsman tooting his horn, alerting the townsfolk to bring out their beasts to be herded up Alyth Hill. The deeds of over 200 properties in the old town...
Read more - "Toutie Street"William Lyon Mackenzie
One of the most famous figures in Canadian history. William Lyon Mackenzie (1795-1861), an important figure in Canadian history, lived and worked here on Toutie Street in Alyth from 1814 to 1817. He then emigrated to Canada where he became a...
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One of the oldest masonry bridges in Scotland. Alyth’s Pack Bridge (intended to carry packhorses loaded with sidebags or panniers across the burn) is one of the oldest masonry bridges in Scotland and is shown on maps as far back as 1600. Reputedly...
Read more - "Pack Bridge"Alyth Parish Church
Designed in Romanesque style by Thomas Hamilton. Situated in a prominent position overlooking the town, Alyth Parish Church was completed in 1839 to a design by Thomas Hamilton, an Edinburgh architect who designed many of that city’s prominent...
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A woodland walk along part of the Highland Boundary Fault. The Den (‘narrow valley’ or ‘gorge’) o’ Alyth is a wooded glen through which the Alyth Burn runs. Part of the geography of the Highland Boundary Fault, it lies on the outskirts of...
Read more - "Den ‘o’ Alyth"The Royal Forest of Alyth
A 12th century Royal Hunting Reserve. As you travel from the Bamff Estate towards Bridge of Cally and Blairgowrie, either as a walker along the Cateran Trail or by cycling or driving the single track road, you will pass through undulating...
Read more - "The Royal Forest of Alyth"The Kynballoch Stone
One of the largest Megaliths in the area. After leaving Drimmie Woods heading south towards Blairgowrie and Rattray, in a field on the left of the road, is the massive Kynballoch Stone. Aligned NNE-SSW, it is known in archaeological circles as...
Read more - "The Kynballoch Stone"River Ericht
One of the Ecomuseum’s most scenic rivers. The rapid and often turbulent water course of the River Ericht is formed from the confluence of the rivers Blackwater and Ardle which join together north of Blairgowrie & Rattray at Bridge of...
Read more - "River Ericht"Beavers on the River Ericht
The ultimate ecosystem engineers. As you travel alongside the River Ericht, you may well see signs of Beavers (see the link to the Scottish Wild Beaver Group site on the right hand side of this page, which will tell you what to look out...
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Crowd funded through a local bazaar. This important crossing of the River Isla was built through the efforts of enterprising and community minded local farmers at the turn of the 20thc. Half the money was put up by 3 local farmers and the other half...
Read more - "Bardmony Bridge"Alyth Auld Town
A traditional Scottish Market Town whose history stretches back 1,000 years. Alyth is a small town, a little over half an hour’s drive northeast of Perth and northwest of Dundee. It overlooks the broad expanse of Strathmore close to Perthshire’s...
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The centre of the town today. The ancient town of Alyth had been situated on the south facing slopes of the hill, but by the middle of the 19thcentury planned development had commenced on the south side of the burn. This included the current Market...
Read more - "Market Square"James Sandy
Inventor of the Invisible Hinge. James Sandy was born in Alyth in about 1766 and lived in what is now the Alyth Hotel. Crippled in both legs as a result of two separate accidents, he nevertheless went on to become known as ‘the Alyth Genius’ for...
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