Huntingtower and Ruthvenfield explained

Country:Scotland
Official Name:Huntingtower and Ruthvenfield
Os Grid Reference:NO074249
Map Type:Scotland
Coordinates:56.4072°N -3.5022°W
Unitary Scotland:Perth and Kinross
Lieutenancy Scotland:Perth and Kinross
Post Town:PERTH
Postcode District:PH1
Postcode Area:PH
Dial Code:01738
Constituency Westminster:Ochil and South Perthshire
Constituency Westminster1:Perth and North Perthshire
Constituency Scottish Parliament:Perth
Constituency Scottish Parliament1:Mid Scotland and Fife

Huntingtower and Ruthvenfield is a village in Perthshire, Scotland, on the River Almond, 3round=5NaNround=5 northwest of Perth.

Bleaching, the chief industry, dated from 1774, when the bleaching-field was formed. By means of an old aqueduct, said to have been built by the Romans, it was provided with water from the River Almond, the properties of which rendered it especially suited for bleaching. Bleaching (by chemicals under cover, not with bleach fields) continued Huntingtower until 1981.

Huntingtower Castle, a once formidable structure, was the scene of the Raid of Ruthven (pron. Rivven), when the Protestant lords, headed by William, 4th Lord Ruthven and 1st Earl of Gowrie (c.1541–1584), kidnapped the boy-king James VI, on August 22, 1582. The earl's sons were slain in the attempt (known as the Gowrie conspiracy) to capture James VI (1600), consequent on which the Scots parliament ordered the name of Ruthven to be abolished, and the barony to be known in future as Huntingtower. The Ruthven name and reputation was re-established in 1651, by Sir Thomas Ruthven, for service to the Crown.

The source of the -long Perth Lade is just west of the village, at Low's Work weir on the River Almond.

Notable persons

George Turnbull was brought up in Huntingtower. He was the Chief Engineer building the first major Indian railway in the 1850s.[1] [2]

Notes and References

  1. Diaries of George Turnbull (Chief Engineer, East Indian Railway Company) held at the Centre of South Asian Studies at Cambridge University, England
  2. George Turnbull, C.E. 437-page memoirs published privately 1893, scanned copy held in the British Library, London on compact disk since 2007