Blair Drummond
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| Coordinates | 56 ° 10 ′ N , 4 ° 3 ′ W | ||
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| Post town | STIRLING | ||
| ZIP code section | FK9 | ||
| prefix | 01786 | ||
| Part of the country | Scotland | ||
| Council area | Stirling | ||
| British Parliament | Stirling | ||
| Scottish Parliament | Stirling | ||
Blair Drummond (also Blairdrummond ) is a small rural community near Stirling in Scotland , mostly along the A84 .
description
Blair Drummond has an elementary school (known as Kincardine in Mentieth Primary School), a church ( Church of Scotland ), and a community hall that was built in 2005. Blair Drummond owns Scotland's only safari park , Blair Drummond Safari Park , and also has a campsite in the old walled garden of Blair Drummond House. A first resident of Blairdrummond House was Enlightenment thinker Henry Home Kames , whose wife inherited the house in 1766. Lord Kames began transforming Blair Drummond's Carse area from an often-watered mossland to an agricultural area, earning him an income of nearly £ 2,000 a year.
Blair Drummond House was completely rebuilt by James Campbell Walker in 1868–1872 and then again by James Bow Dunn, after a fire in 1921–1923, and is now a home for adults with learning difficulties, taken care of by the Camphill Movement.
Many of Blair Drummond's residents are farmers, while others commute to Stirling, Edinburgh or Glasgow . Blair Drummond is in the Stirling Council Area , although it was part of Central Scotland in the past and Perthshire before that . Other municipalities bordering Blair Drummond are Gargunnock , Thornhill , Balfron, and Doune . One parish council covers Thornhill and Blair Drummond, and the 2001 census for the Thornhill and Blairdrummond parish council gave a population figure of 1109.
Personalities
- William Downie Stewart, Sr. , New Zealand politician
Footnotes
- ↑ Blair Drummond Hall
- ↑ a b Milne, Hugh M. (ed): Appendix to Boswell's Edinburgh Journals 1767-1768 . Mercat Press, 2001, ISBN 1-84183-020-8 , p. 556.
- ↑ History of Flanders Moss (PDF; 3.2 MB) Scottish National Heritage. Archived from the original on September 29, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 24, 2012.
- ^ DSA Building / Design Report . Dictionary of Scottish Architects. 2006. Archived from the original on February 7, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 12, 2008.
- ↑ Thornhill and Blairdrummond Community Council ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
