Old Photograph Thatched Cottage Post Office Ruthven Scotland

Old photograph of a Postman and Postmistress outside the thatched Post Office in Ruthven village located two miles North of Meigle, Perthshire, Scotland. Ruthven Castle, an ancient baronial residence, belonging at one time to the Earls of Crawford, stood in the South East of the parish near the left bank of the River Isla, but, falling into ruin, was long ago removed. A knoll in the neighbourhood still bears the name of Gallows Hill, from being the place where the old feudal barons of Ruthven erected their gibbet; and a small field adjoining it is known by the name of the Hangman s Acres.



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