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Forteviot
Sign in to saveForteviot () (Ordnance Survey ) is a village in Strathearn, Perth and Kinross on the south bank of the River Earn between Dunning and Perth. It lies in the council area of Perth and Kinross. The population in 1991 was 160.
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Place details
- Locality
- Forteviot
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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- Instance of
- village
- Country
- Kingdom of Scotland
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Main Square, Forteviot.jpg
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- Commons category
- Forteviot
- OS grid reference
- NO052174
- historic county
- Perthshire
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Early Bronze Age
- The Pictish palace of Forteviot
- The village
- Notable residents
- References
- Further reading
Forteviot () (Ordnance Survey ) is a village in Strathearn, Perth and Kinross on the south bank of the River Earn between Dunning and Perth. It lies in the council area of Perth and Kinross. The population in 1991 was 160.
The present village was rebuilt in the 1920s by John Alexander Dewar, 1st Baron Forteviot of the Dewar's whisky family.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Forteviot” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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