Pitcairngreen
Coordinates: 56°25′35″N 3°31′04″W / 56.4264°N 3.5178°W
Pitcairngreen (pronounced 'Pit-cairn Green') is a hamlet / very small village in Perth and Kinross which is more or less adjoined to the much larger village of Almondbank. It lies around 4 miles northwest of Perth, and as its name would suggest, two features of the settlement are a green and a cairn.
The Village's layout was designed in 1786 to have a green at the centre of it by James Stobie factor to John Murray, the 4th Duke of Atholl.The presence of a village green is unusual for a Scottish village as these are more commonly associated with traditional English villages. Stobie designed Pitcairngreen to be an industrial textile manufacturing village for Thomas Graham, a textile manufacturer.[1] Its rivalry with the Manchester textile factories is set out in the poem "The Scottish Village, or Pitcairngreen" by Hannah Cowley which starts with the lines:
- "Go Manchester and weep thy slighted loom
- its arts are cherished now in Pitcairne Green."[1]
Amenities
The village has a pub called the Pitcairngreen Inn,[2] a village hall and a park or green which the village is built around.
References
- 1 2 "Pitcairngreen". scottish-places.info.
- ↑ "The Pitcairngreen Inn - a traditional village pub near Perth". pitcairngreeninn.co.uk.
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