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CATERANECOMUSEUM.CO.UK DISCOVER HOW THIS TRADITIONAL MARKET TOWN BUILT ITS SUCCESS OVER CENTURIES OF POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CHANGE. The ancient settlement of Alyth lies at the southern edge of the Cateran Ecomuseum not far from Dundee and Perth. In 1488 it was created a Burgh of Barony by King James III with the right to hold fairs and markets, which enabled the town to grow. ALYTH AULD TOWN Learn about the most intriguing aspects Explore this picturesque market town with its of its long history from the Picts to the beautiful burnside, wander through some of drovers and the background to some of the its ancient sites and find out about its links to notable characters who called it their home. remarkable people and key events in a history The name Alyth is thought to be Pictish, that stretches back over 1,000 years. confirming the longevity of settlement in the town, perhaps reaching back to the sixth century or earlier. The area is studded with prehistoric sites, notably the Iron Age fort on Barry Hill and the first Christian church to be established in the 6th century is ascribed to the Irish missionary St Moluag, known as the Apostle of the Picts. A MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLS The Cateran Ecomuseum is a museum without The Cateran Ecomuseum – a museum walls, all our sites are outside. Designed to reveal without walls, all our sites are outside the hidden history of Cateran Country by the You can discover the history of Scotland’s Berry community who live here, it tells the story of its Capital, Blairgowrie, and visit the site of its people, places and landscapes from pre-history to the present day. Victorian Textile Mills, walk a part of the Highland Boundary Fault in Alyth and enjoy its well preserved old town centre. A hike along the Cateran Trail, one of Scotland’s great long distance footpaths The Cateran Ecomuseum is a social will take you across magical Glenshee to the small enterprise whose vision is to enable holistic, democratic and sustainable villages of Kirkmichael and Glenisla, offering you involvement with culture, history and spectacular views through huge landscapes sculpted heritage. by glaciation and traversed by old drove roads and ancient rights of way. Enjoy Scotland’s outdoors responsibly Situated on the 500-million-year-old Highland • Take responsibility for your own actions Boundary Fault – the great geological feature that • Respect the interests of other people divides the Scottish Highlands from the Lowlands – • Care for the environment the Cateran Ecomuseum’s human history stretches back through millennia with sites identified from INNER RIGHT Neolithic times. The first phase of the Cateran Ecomuseum has been made possible by many people who live and work locally and by the generous financial support of the following funders: www.pkleader.org There are Pictish Stones to excite your curiosity, Our Funders unknown stories from the legends of King Arthur and the Irish Giant Finn mac Cumhaill, This leaflet should be used in conjunction This project has been supported by Rural Perth & Kinross and Angus contemporary histories of the Scottish Traveller with the Cateran Ecomuseum website LEADER Programmes 2014-2020: The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Community, important events linked to the great which offers more detail on each itinerary Development: Europe investing in rural areas. Jacobite rebellions and fables of the Caterans and points of interest. Photo Credits: Clare Cooper, Heritage Environment Scotland, The Laing themselves, the Highland clan warriors who came Collection, George Logan, National Portrait Gallery, Perth Museum Visit: www.cateranecomuseum.co.uk Map: Martin McGuinness to be associated with cattle raiding. Leaflet design by: Pulse North Lieutenant 1. James Sandy 2. Alyth Museum 3. Pack Bridge 4. Toutie Street 5. William Lyon Mackenzie 6. Lossett Inn The inventor of the Invisible Hinge The only building based museum One of the oldest masonry bridges A permanent reminder of a bygone One of the most famous figures in One of Scotland’s oldest inns Crippled in both legs as a result outside Perth City in Perth & Kinross in Scotland custom Canadian History The Lossett Inn has been a of accident, James Sandy became Open seasonally from May Alyth’s Pack Bridge (intended to This street name immortalises William Lyon Mackenzie (1795- Drover’s Inn since 1760. At that known as ‘the Alyth Genius’ for to September, the area’s carry packhorses loaded with the bygone custom of the 1861), an important figure in time, Alyth had nine fairs a year, his remarkable creativity and rich farming heritage is the sidebags or panniers across the herdsman tooting his horn, Canadian history, lived and so the Lossett would have been ingenuity. inspiration for the displays in this burn) is shown on maps as far alerting the townsfolk to bring worked here on Toutie Street in a busy place. lovely, small museum.. back as 1600. out their beasts to be herded up Alyth from 1814 to 1817. Alyth Hill. 13. Boer War Memorial A commemoration to three brave local men Erected in memory of Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Airlie, Lieutenant Nigel Ramsay, and 9 Trooper Charles Wedderburn 10 Ogilvy who died in the second 8 Anglo-Boer War. 5 4 11 3 6 7 12 2 1 14 13 15 14. Market Square 15. Sir Frances Aglen The centre of the town today One of the most influential By the early 19th century there foreigners working in China in the were dozens of shops down the early 20th century full length of Toutie Street, the Sir Francis was head of the newly developed Commercial Chinese Maritime Customs Street and the start of Mill service from 1911 to 1927, street. one of the most important posts in the administration of China at that time. 7. Monks Wynd 8. Alyth Arches 9. Market Cross 10. Wool Market 11. Alyth Parish Church 12. Textile Mills An ancient path The site of Alyth’s oldest Christian A monument from Alyth’s ancient The site of livestock fairs Designed by Thomas Hamilton The site of former linen mills The first missionaries who came church trading history Livestock fairs took place here This church was completed in In the 18th century Alyth to found the church in Alyth These three imposing old stone The erection of a Market and as in all burgh market places, 1839 to a design by Thomas became heavily involved in were monks from the early arches formed part of the old Cross or ‘Mercat Cross’ in there was a custom house where Hamilton, an Edinburgh architect flax processing for linen, and Celtic Church, this short path is parish church, which itself was Scotland served as a symbolic the tron or weighing beam was who designed many of that city’s spinning and hand-loom weaving a reminder of these men. probably built over the first representation of the right to kept. prominent buildings. dominated local employment. hold a regular market or fair. Christian Church in Alyth, dedicated to St Moluag..
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