OS grid reference NO064271 Sovereign state United Kingdom Postcode district PH1 Local time Monday 9:23 PM | Post town PERTH Dialling code 01738 Lieutenancy area Perth and Kinross | |
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Weather 3°C, Wind SW at 27 km/h, 86% Humidity UK parliament constituency Ochil and South Perthshire Scottish parliaments North Tayside, North East Scotland | ||
Pitcairngreen (pronounced 'Pit-cairn Green') is a hamlet / very small village in Perth and Kinross which is more or less adjoined to the much larger village of Almondbank. It lies around 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Perth, and as its name would suggest, two features of the settlement are a green and a cairn.
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Map of Pitcairngreen, Perth, UK
The Village's layout was designed in 1786 to have a green at the centre of it by James Stobie factor to John Murray, the 4th Duke of Atholl.The presence of a village green is unusual for a Scottish village as these are more commonly associated with traditional English villages. Stobie designed Pitcairngreen to be an industrial textile manufacturing village for Thomas Graham, a textile manufacturer. Its rivalry with the Manchester textile factories is set out in the poem "The Scottish Village, or Pitcairngreen" by Hannah Cowley which starts with the lines:
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The village has a pub called the Pitcairngreen Inn, a village hall and a park or green which the village is built around.