Dunkeld
Dunkeld as well as Birnam is an area council location and UK Census area in Perth as well as Kinross, Scotland, consisting of two villages on opposite banks of the River Tay: the historical cathedral "city" of Dunkeld on the north financial institution, and also Birnam on the south bank. The two were first linked by a bridge built in 1809 by Thomas Telford. Both locations lie close to the Highland Boundary Fault, which notes the geological limit between the Highlands as well as the Lowlands, and also are regularly referred to as the "Portal to the Highlands" as a result of their placement on the main road as well as rail lines north. Dunkeld and also Birnam share a railway station, Dunkeld & Birnam, on the Highland Main Line, and are about 24 kilometres (15 mi) north of Perth on what is now the A9 road. Dunkeld pushes the eastern side of the A9 on the north financial institution of the River Tay. The town is the area of Dunkeld Cathedral. Around 20 of your homes within Dunkeld have actually been recovered by the National Trust for Scotland, who run a shop within the community. The Hermitage, on the western side of the A9, is a countryside residential or commercial property that is additionally a National Trust for Scotland site. Birnam lies opposite Dunkeld, on the south bank of the Tay, to which it is connected by the Telford bridge. It is the location of the Birnam Oak, thought to the only continuing to be tree from the Birnam Wood called in Shakespeare's Macbeth. The Highland video games held at Birnam are the location of the World Haggis Eating Championships.