place

Birnam, Perth and Kinross

Villages in Perth and Kinross

Birnam is a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It is located 12 miles (19 km) north of Perth on the A9 road, the main tourist route through Perthshire, in an area of Scotland marketed as Big Tree Country. The village originated from the Victorian era with the coming of the railway in 1856, although the place and name is well known because William Shakespeare mentioned Birnam Wood in Macbeth: MACBETH: I will not be afraid of death and bane, till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane. Prior to the construction of the railway, the only substantial building on the site of the present village was the church of Little Dunkeld parish, which still stands in its ancient position within a graveyard within the village. Dunkeld, to whose monastery Kenneth MacAlpin, the first King of Scotland, moved the bones of St. Columba around the middle of the ninth century, and which is notable for its cathedral, lies on the opposite bank of the river.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Birnam, Perth and Kinross (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors).

Birnam, Perth and Kinross
Telford Gardens,

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Birnam, Perth and KinrossContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 56.557 ° E -3.576 °
placeShow on map

Address

Telford Gardens 1-5
PH8 0BN
Scotland, United Kingdom
mapOpen on Google Maps

Share experience

Nearby Places