Walk 22

Tuesday 7th October

Cronan - Coupar Angus (River Isla)

Easy

Distance: 8km/5miles, 35m ascent
Start:  Royal Hotel, Blairgowrie. 10:00

Finish: Red House Hotel, Coupar Angus for refeshments at 14:00, bus leaves for Blairgowrie 14:30
Limit: 25
Notes: Easy. Stout walking shoes and appropriate outer clothing.

Maps: Landranger 53, Explorer 381

About the walk:  

This is a short walk along the bank of the meandering River Isla.  Notice how there are substantial flood defences on either side of the river. These keep it under control during its regular floods but when there has been a lot of rain in the mountains of Glenshee and Glen Isla, and/or the snow is melting, no dyke can control it. Where you will be walking would be under water, which regularly occurs 2 or 3 times each winter.

See if you can spot the ford where the monks from Coupar Abbey crossed to get at the abbey farm of Coupar Grange on the north side.