Tour Scotland travel video of an Autumn mostly back roads drive, with Scottish bagpipes and drums music, on ancestry, history visit to Ardler, in Perthshire. Ardler village is located three miles to the east of Coupar Angus, and approximately equidistant between the latter and Meigle. The village was founded in the 1830s by the radical thinker George Kinloch who planned to develop a marketing centre for Strathmore on the railway line linking Dundee and Coupar Angus. Originally naming it Washington after the American president, Kinloch intended the streets to take the names of well known political and philosophical heroes from William Wallace to Benjamin Franklin. Kinloch did not live to see the completion of the village which failed to prosper. Following the establishment of a church and the foundation of the Parish of Ardler in 1885, the name Ardler superseded that of Washington.
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