Alyth travel guide

Alyth (Ailt in Gaelic) is a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, situated under the Hill of Alyth five miles north east of Blairgowrie. The village has a population of 2,383 (1991). It has a primary school and did have a high school up to 4th year until 1994, when it was closed down and all pupils now go to Blairgowrie for high school or Webster's High
Alyth is located on a burn which bears its name and owes its position to a confluence of droving roads used by hill farmers to bring their sheep down to market. A picturesque 17th century pack-horse bridge is among a number crossing the burn in the village (see photo). There may have been a Christian presence in this area from early times, since the medieval parish church was dedicated to St. Moluag of Lismore (d. 592), a contemporary of St. Columba. The ruins of the old church, known locally as The Arches, stand in a graveyard in a prominent position at the top of the town. The current church building, completed in 1839 to the design of Edinburgh architect, Thomas Hamilton, dominates the skyline of the town. It is Gothic in style, with Romanesque influences, especially in the windows, and has an unusually high spire. Inside the church is to be found the funeral escutcheon of Sir George Ramsay, sixth baronet of Bamff, who was killed in a duel at Musselburgh, in April 1790 - one of the last duelling deaths in Scotland. In the church porch is preserved a late 7th-early 8th century Pictish cross-slab, with a decorated cross on one face and a single Pictish symbol ('double disc and Z-rod') on the other. It was discovered in Alyth in 1887 when ground was being levelled in front of the manse. (...) more....

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