OS grid reference NO074249 Sovereign state United Kingdom Postcode district PH1 Dialling code 01738 | Post town PERTH | |
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Weather 3°C, Wind SW at 29 km/h, 88% Humidity UK parliament constituencys Ochil and South Perthshire, Perth and North Perthshire | ||
Huntingtower and Ruthvenfield, a village of Perthshire, Scotland, on the Almond, a little northwest of Perth.
Bleaching, the chief industry, dated from 1774, when the bleaching-field was formed. By means of an old aqueduct, said to have been built by the Romans, it was provided with water from the Almond, the properties of which rendered it specially suited for bleaching.
Huntingtower (originally Ruthven) Castle, a once formidable structure, was the scene of the Raid of Ruthven (pron. Rivven), when the Protestant lords, headed by William, 4th Lord Ruthven and 1st Earl of Gowrie (1441–1584), kidnapped the boy-king James VI, on August 22, 1582. The earl's sons were slain in the attempt (known as the Gowrie conspiracy) to capture James VI (1600), consequent on which the Scots parliament ordered the name of Ruthven to be abolished, and the barony to be known in future as Huntingtower.
Notable persons
George Turnbull was brought up in Huntingtower. He was the Chief Engineer building the first major Indian railway in the 1850s.