Tour Scotland Travel Video Winter Road Trip Drive Into Alyth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video Blog of a sunny afternoon road trip drive, with Scottish music, into Alyth on ancestry visit to Perthshire, Scotland. Alyth owes its position to a confluence of drovers roads used by hill farmers to bring their sheep and highland cattle down to market. Alyth was granted a Charter by King James III in 1488, raising Alyth to the rank of Burgh of Barony with the right to hold markets and fairs. The Lossit Inn was built in 1760. By then Alyth was larger than Blairgowrie and had nine fairs a year, far more than most market towns. For a while the town was the location of a 100 loom steam mill producing linen, and by 1870 the industry employed 350 people in Alyth's two mills.

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