Spring Road Trip Drive From Strathearn To Visit Bridgend Perth Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring travel video, with Scottish bagpipes and drums music, of a May road trip drive from a farm in rural Strathearn on visit to Bridgend in the Fair City of Perth, Perthshire. Royal dukedoms of Cumberland and Strathearn, of Kent and Strathearn and of Connaught and Strathearn have been awarded to members of the British Royal Family. Prince William was created Earl of Strathearn, as a subsidiary title to Duke of Cambridge, on 29 April 2011, the day of his wedding to Catherine Middleton. Kinnoull, along with Bridgend and Barnhill, lies on the eastern side of the River Tay, on sloping ground rising up towards Kinnoull Hill. The Kinnoull area was not substantially developed until the Victorian era, prior to this concentration of settlement was mainly around Commercial Street. This was connected to the City of Perth in 1617 by a bridge built by John Mylne, during the reign of James VI. By 1621 the bridge had been swept away by severe flooding and it would be 150 years before a replacement was completed. Difficulty of accessing the Kinnoull area would prevent its expansion until the latter part of the eighteenth century. Without a bridge to cross the river, the area around Commercial Street and what is now Bridgend became home to ferrymen and others who relied on the river to earn their living. It was a busy ferry crossing point. The oldest buildings, the Dower House of the Moncrieffe Estate sited at the foot of Bellwood Park, is alleged to have hosted Bonnie Prince Charlie during the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. The Moncrieffe family subsequently lost their lands around Barnhill after the rebels were defeated because of their support for the Jacobites through both the 1715 and 1745 uprisings. It was the building of John Smeaton’s Perth Bridge of 1771 that stimulated the expansion of the area into a high status residential suburb. The impetus for the building of the bridge was generated by the 8th Earl of Kinnoull, who donated generously to fund its construction. After the opening of the bridge, Kinnoull was made a Burgh of Barony under the Earl of Kinnoull. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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