Pitcairngreen (pronounced 'Pit-cairn Green') is a

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in the Scottish council area of

Perth and Kinross Perth and Kinross ( sco, Pairth an Kinross; gd, Peairt agus Ceann Rois) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland and a Lieutenancy Area. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Clackmannanshire, Dundee, Fife, Highland and S ...

which is more or less adjoined to the much larger village of

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. It lies northwest of

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. As its name would suggest, two features of the settlement are a

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and a

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. In the 18th century the nearby River Almond was used to power textile mills and the local nobleman

Lord Lynedoch Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch (19 October 174818 December 1843) was a Scottish aristocrat, politician and British Army officer. After his education at Oxford, he inherited a substantial estate in Scotland, married and settled down to a qui ...

created the village to provide housing for mill workers. The village's layout was designed in 1786 to have a green at the centre of it by

James Stobie James Stobie (date of birth and death unknown) was the factor to John Murray, the 4th Duke of Atholl's in the late 17 hundreds. He is best known for designing the layout of Perthshire villages on the bequest of the 4th Duke of Atholl. In 1784 h ...

, a

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to John Murray, the 4th Duke of Atholl. The presence of a

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is unusual for a Scottish village as these are more commonly associated with traditional

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villages. Stobie designed Pitcairngreen to be an industrial textile manufacturing village for Thomas Graham, a textile manufacturer. Its rivalry with the

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textile factories is set out in the poem "The Scottish Village, or Pitcairngreen" by Hannah Cowley which starts with the lines: ::::"Go Manchester and weep thy slighted loom ::::its arts are cherished now in Pitcairne Green." There is a prehistoric burial cairn to the north-east of the village which is made from boulders from the River Almond.

Amenities

The village has a

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called the Pitcairngreen Inn, a village hall and a green around which the village is built. Originally intended for industrial purposes, such as bleaching, the green now features impressive stands of oak and beech trees, as well as play facilities for the local children.

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Pitcairngreen
Gazetteer for Scotland

Gazetteer for Scotland Villages in Perth and Kinross {{PerthKinross-geo-stub