Dunkeld
Dunkeld and Birnam is a community council area as well as UK Census area in Perth as well as Kinross, Scotland, consisting of two 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. The two were first connected by a bridge constructed in 1809 by Thomas Telford. The two areas lie close to the Highland Boundary Fault, which marks the geological boundary in between the Highlands and also the Lowlands, and also are regularly called the "Entrance to the Highlands" due to their position on the main road and also railway north. Dunkeld and also Birnam share a railway station, Dunkeld & Birnam, on the Highland Main Line, as well as 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 town is the place of Dunkeld Cathedral. Around 20 of your homes within Dunkeld have been recovered by the National Trust for Scotland, that run a shop within the town. The Hermitage, on the western side of the A9, is a countryside home that is also a National Trust for Scotland site. Birnam exists contrary Dunkeld, on the south bank of the Tay, to which it is connected by the Telford bridge. It is the place of the Birnam Oak, thought to the only continuing to be tree from the Birnam Wood called in Shakespeare's Macbeth. The Highland games held at Birnam are the area of the World Haggis Eating Championships.