Tomintoul (Scotland)
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Tomintoul Scottish Gaelic Tom an t-Sabhail |
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| Coordinates | 57 ° 15 ′ N , 3 ° 23 ′ W | ||
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| Post town | BALLINDALLOCH | ||
| ZIP code section | AB37 | ||
| prefix | 01807 | ||
| Part of the country | Scotland | ||
| Council area | Moray | ||
| British Parliament | Moray | ||
| Scottish Parliament | Moray | ||
Tomintoul (pronunciation: [ˌtɒmɪn'taʊ̯l] ; Gaelic Tom an t-Sabhail ) is at 345 meters above sea level the highest village in the county of Banffshire in the Scottish council area Moray . According to the 2001 census, 322 people lived in Tomintoul.
history
The village of Tomintoul was founded in 1775 by Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon (1743-1827), also 7th Marquess of Huntly, to encourage the dispersed residents of the area to move to a central point.
The villagers were supposed to make a living by producing textiles, a plan that failed. The first settlers lived from casual work, animal husbandry and the cultivation of small plots. The location of the place used to favor the whiskey distillery - in 1824 one of his feudal men was the first to apply for a whiskey license. (see also: List of Scottish Distilleries )
The place lies between the Avon in the west and the Conglass in the east and owes its location to the former military road (today A939 ), which was built through the area in the decade after the Jacobite uprising of 1745 . In addition, several old cattle drive routes from the surrounding hills converge here.
Personalities
- Percy Toplis (1896–1920) was one of the people responsible for the mutiny in Étaples (1917); Persecuted until 1920 and then shot in the street in Tomintoul. (William Allison and John Fairley: The Monocled Mutineer , Quartet Books (1979) ISBN 0-7043-3287-6 )
- Mary Barnes (1923-2001) was a British artist and writer. She lived in Tomintoul from 1993 to 2001 and was buried there.
Attractions
- In the Tomintoul Museum you can find information about the history, geology and wildlife of the area as well as a reconstructed farm kitchen and the tools of a blacksmith from 1926.
- The Tomintoul distillery was built in 1965 at an altitude of 370 meters and is the second highest distillery in Scotland. It belongs to the famous Whiskey Trail .
