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Huntingtower and Ruthvenfield

Field	Value
country	Scotland
official_name	Huntingtower and Ruthvenfield
os_grid_reference	NO074249
map_type	Scotland
coordinates
unitary_scotland	Perth and Kinross
lieutenancy_scotland	Perth and Kinross
post_town	PERTH
postcode_district	PH1
postcode_area	PH
dial_code	01738
constituency_westminster	Ochil and South Perthshire
constituency_westminster1	Perth and North Perthshire
constituency_scottish_parliament	Perth
constituency_scottish_parliament1	Mid Scotland and Fife

Huntingtower and Ruthvenfield is a village in Perthshire, Scotland, on the River Almond, 3 mi northwest of Perth.

Bleaching, the chief industry, dated from 1774, when the bleaching-field was formed. By means of an old aqueduct, said to have been built by the Romans, it was provided with water from the River Almond, the properties of which rendered it especially suited for bleaching. Bleaching (by chemicals under cover, not with bleach fields) continued in Huntingtower until 1981.

Huntingtower Castle, a once formidable structure, was the scene of the Raid of Ruthven (pron. Rivven), when the Protestant lords, headed by William, 4th Lord Ruthven and 1st Earl of Gowrie (c.1541–1584), kidnapped the boy-king James VI, on 22 August 1582. The earl's sons were slain in the attempt (known as the Gowrie conspiracy) to capture James VI (1600). As a result, the Scots parliament ordered the name of Ruthven to be abolished, and the barony to be known in future as Huntingtower. The Ruthven name and reputation was re-established in 1651, by Sir Thomas Ruthven, for service to the Crown.

The source of the 4.5 mi-long Perth Lade is just west of the village, at Low's Work weir on the River Almond.

Roman History

As a result of excavations by the Roman Gask Project at West Mains of Huntingtower, the remains of a Roman tower were identified. This was probably the northernmost tower in the series of Roman fortifications known as the Gask Ridge during the Flavian dynasty (ca 80AD).

Notable persons

George Turnbull was brought up in Huntingtower. He was the Chief Engineer building the first major Indian railway in the 1850s.

References

{{EB1911
"Huntingtower {{!}} The Roman Gask Project".
Diaries of George Turnbull (Chief Engineer, [[East Indian Railway Company]]) held at the [https://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/papers/item/turnbull-papers/ Centre of South Asian Studies] at [[Cambridge University]], England
''George Turnbull, C.E.'' 437-page memoirs published privately 1893, [https://web-cdn.org/s/1423/file/Archive/george-turnbull.pdf?r=6126879 scanned copy] held in the British Library, London on compact disk since 2007

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