Dunkeld
Dunkeld as well as Birnam is a neighborhood council location and UK Census region in Perth as well as Kinross, Scotland, containing two towns on contrary banks of the River Tay: the historic cathedral "city" of Dunkeld on the north bank, and also Birnam on the south bank. The two were first linked by a bridge built in 1809 by Thomas Telford. The two areas lie close to the Highland Boundary Fault, which notes the geological limit between the Highlands and also the Lowlands, and also are often referred to as the "Entrance to the Highlands" as a result of their setting on the highway and also railway north. Dunkeld and also Birnam share a railway station, Dunkeld & Birnam, on the Highland Main Line, as well as have to do with 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 location of Dunkeld Cathedral. Around 20 of your houses within Dunkeld have actually been restored 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 property that is also a National Trust for Scotland site. Birnam lies opposite Dunkeld, on the south financial institution of the Tay, to which it is connected by the Telford bridge. It is the area of the Birnam Oak, believed to the only continuing to be tree from the Birnam Timber called in Shakespeare's Macbeth. The Highland video games held at Birnam are the area of the World Haggis Eating Championships.