Dunkeld
Dunkeld as well as Birnam is a neighborhood council area and also UK Census region in Perth as well as Kinross, Scotland, consisting of 2 towns on contrary financial institutions of the River Tay: the historical cathedral "city" of Dunkeld on the north bank, as well as Birnam on the south bank. Both were first linked by a bridge constructed in 1809 by Thomas Telford. The two areas lie close to the Highland Boundary Fault, which notes the geological border in between the Highlands as well as the Lowlands, and are frequently referred to as the "Portal to the Highlands" as a result of their setting on the main road and also railway north. Dunkeld and also Birnam share a train station, Dunkeld & Birnam, on the Highland Main Line, and also are about 24 kilometres (15 mi) north of Perth on what is currently the A9 road. Dunkeld rests on the eastern side of the A9 on the north financial institution of the River Tay. The community is the place of Dunkeld Cathedral. Around 20 of your homes within Dunkeld have actually been restored by the National Trust for Scotland, who run a store within the town. The Hermitage, on the western side of the A9, is a countryside residential property that is also a National Trust for Scotland site. Birnam exists contrary Dunkeld, on the south financial institution of the Tay, to which it is linked by the Telford bridge. It is the location of the Birnam Oak, believed to the only continuing to be tree from the Birnam Timber named in Shakespeare's Macbeth. The Highland games held at Birnam are the place of the World Haggis Eating Championships.