Perthshire

Perthshire (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Pheairt) known as the “big county”, is a historic county and registration county in central Scotland. It has a wide variety of landscapes, from the rich agricultural straths in the east, to the high mountains of the southern Highlands. Perthshire was an administrative county between 1890 and 1975. In 1975, the administrative county was superseded by the Local Government Act 1973.
==Famous places==
* Ashintully Castle
* Balvaird Castle
* Birnam Wood and Dunsinane Hill, famous from Shakespeare’s Macbeth
* Blair Castle
* Cateran Trail	
* Dirnanean House
* Drummond Castle
* Dunkeld Cathedral
* Edradour Distillery	
* Gleneagles Hotel
* The Hermitage
* Kindrogan House
* Scone Palace
==Resources==
* Wikipedia:Perthshire
Category:Perth and Kinross