Cateran Ecomuseum

A thriving centre of innovation in Tayside's textile history. The area around Blairgowrie & Rattray has evidence of human settlement that goes back to Neolithic times. The Romans reached here,...

The Site of Alyth’s Oldest Christian Church. From the south side of the Market Cross, a gateway leads to the ‘Auld Kirk Yaird’. Here you can see three imposing old...

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....

The only museum outside Perth City in Perth and Kinross. Open seasonally from May to September, the museum is now the information hub for the Cateran Ecomuseum. Prior to 2022,...

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...

Originally planned as a Railway Village. This small village was the brainchild of local landowner George Kinloch, who was elected as a Liberal MP for Dundee following the Scottish Reform...

Mill workers’ housing. Accommodation for mill workers became quite an issue as the 19thc progressed and the mills grew in number and size. The populations of Blairgowrie and Rattray grew...

Mrs Baxter and Ashbank House. Ashbank Mill was built in about  1836  by a  Mr. John  Baxter. Originally it was used for spinning  flax and  tow (a coarse broken fibre removed during processing...