What a start, ... where is that bus?
Sorry this is a walk!
Walk 1
Friday 3rd October
Darroch Wood - Muirton - Gallowbank
Moderate
Free Taster walk
Distance:
7km/4.5miles, 70m ascent
Start: Royal
Hotel, Blairgowrie. 14:00
Finish:
Royal
Hotel, Blairgowrie. 16:30
Limit:
30
Notes: Moderate. Stout walking shoes
and appropriate outer clothing.
Maps:
Landranger 53, Explorer 381
About
the walk:
This short
‘taster’ walk starts and finishes at the Wellmeadow in the centre of
Blairgowrie. After fifteen minutes it reaches open country and the highest point
on the route, Gallowbank. This is a peaceful spot overlooking the fields and
woods to the south. As the name suggests, however, the site has a grisly history
and was presumably chosen so passers-by had a good view of what was hanging up
here to remind them of the consequences of lawbreaking!
The walk also
takes in Muirton of Ardblair, a scatter of houses on the site of an ancient ‘fermtoun’.
These communal farming settlements were the predominant pattern of habitation in
Scotland until the agricultural revolution of the 18th century.
Close by is the Darroch or ‘Bluebell’ Wood which, as its name suggests, is thickly carpeted with an intense display of bluebells in Spring.
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What a start, ... where is that bus? Sorry this is a walk! |
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