Auchterarder
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Auchterarder
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South of Strathearn is the trim little town of Auchterarder, overlooked by the Ochil Hills to the south and surrounded by rich farmland. There's a Tourist Information Centre on the High Street. Tel. 663450. Apr-Jun, Sep and Oct Mon-Sat 0930-1730; Jul and Aug Mon-Sat 0900-1800, Sun 1100-1600; Nov-Mar Mon-Fri 1000-1400 (do check opening hours). The adjacent heritage centre tells of centuries of local history – from agriculture to education – including information on the local textile industry which has been going here since the 16th century. Most people come here to play golf at the world-renowned Gleneagles Hotel
Dunning
Five miles east of Auchterarder, and eight miles southwest of Perth, is the historically interesting little village of Dunning, once the capital of the Picts and the place where Kenneth I, king of the Picts and Scots, died in 860. The village was burned to the ground by the Jacobites in 1716 and the only surviving building is the 12th-century Norman tower of St Serf's church. A mile west of the village, by the B8062, is Maggie Walls Monument, which commemorates the burning of a local witch in 1657.
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Transport
There are daily buses with Docherty's Midland Coaches, Tel. 662218, to and from Dunning, Crieff, Stirling and Perth.