Autumn Road Trip Drive From Gilmerton To Perth Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of an Autumn road trip drive, with Scottish music, East on the A85 road from Gilmerton and through Methven to the traffic lights at the junction to the A9 bypass road on visit to the city of Perth, Perthshire. For much of the A85's route, it follows the course of an old military road. This was later upgraded by Thomas Telford, before being improved once more in the 1930s as the age of motoring began. The neighbouring estate of Cultoquhey by Gilmerton was owned by the Maxtone family for five centuries, their survival being attributed to the Cultoquhey Prayer written by an eccentric laird in the 1700s:

From the greed of the Campbells,
From the Ire of the Drummonds,
From the pride of the Grahams,
And from the wind of the Murrays,
Gude Lord preserve us.

The Battle of Methven took place in 1306 between Scottish forces led by King Robert the Bruce and English forces led by Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke and resulted in a resounding win for the English. This was part of the Scottish Wars of Independence.

All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

View the most recent Tour Scotland photographs.