Old Photograph Ferry Kinclaven Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of the ferry across the River Tay at Kinclaven, North of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The Kinclaven Ferry was a busy chain ferry across the River Tay, vital to local travel until the Kinclaven Bridge opened in 1905, after which it closed. It served foot-passengers, horses, and carriages, with an inn nearby, and was important enough to be controlled by Kinclaven Castle, which was founded in the 11th century and sacked by William Wallace in 1297. The River Tay, Scottish Gaelic: Tatha, is the longest river in Scotland and the seventh longest in the United Kingdom. The Tay originates in western Scotland on the slopes of Ben Lui, Scottish Gaelic: Beinn Laoigh, then flows easterly across the Highlands, through Loch Dochart, Loch Iubhair and Loch Tay, then continues east through Strathtay, in the centre of Scotland, then southeasterly through Perth, where it becomes tidal, to its mouth at the Firth of Tay, south of Dundee.



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