Crieff
Sign in to saveCrieff (; , meaning "tree") is a Scottish market town in Perth and Kinross on the A85 road between Perth and Crianlarich, and the A822 between Greenloaning and Aberfeldy. The A822 joins the A823 to Dunfermline. Crieff has become a hub for tourism, famous for whisky and its history of cattle droving. Attractions include the Caithness Glass Visitor Centre and Glenturret Distillery. The nearby Innerpeffray Library (founded about 1680) is Scotland's oldest lending library. St Mary's Chapel beside it dates from 1508. Both are open to the public: the library is run by a charitable trust; the chapel
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- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.official_name
- Crieff
- UK place.gaelic_name
- Craoibh
- UK place.scots_name
- Crieff
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- Heading east on Crieff's High Street - geograph.org.uk - 3152513.jpg
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- High Street, Crieff with Crieff Town Hall in the centre distance
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NN863219
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- Scotland
- UK place.population_ref
- ()
- UK place.community_scotland
- Crieff
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- Perth and Kinross
- UK place.lieutenancy_scotland
- Perth and Kinross
- UK place.post_town
- CRIEFF
- UK place.postcode_district
- PH7
- UK place.postcode_area
- PH
- UK place.dial_code
- 01764
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Perth and Kinross-shire
- UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament
- Perthshire South and Kinross-shire
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- Population
- 7430
- Official website
- www.crieff.co.uk
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- The Drummond Arms, Crieff - geograph.org.uk - 435565.jpg
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Crieff (; , meaning "tree") is a Scottish market town in Perth and Kinross on the A85 road between Perth and Crianlarich, and the A822 between Greenloaning and Aberfeldy. The A822 joins the A823 to Dunfermline. Crieff has become a hub for tourism, famous for whisky and its history of cattle droving. Attractions include the Caithness Glass Visitor Centre and Glenturret Distillery. The nearby Innerpeffray Library (founded about 1680) is Scotland's oldest lending library. St Mary's Chapel beside it dates from 1508. Both are open to the public: the library is run by a charitable trust; the chapel is in the care of Historic Environment Scotland.
==History== For centuries Highlanders came to Crieff to sell their black cattle, whose meat and hides were sought by the growing urban populations in Lowland Scotland and the north of England. The town acted as a gathering point for the Michaelmas cattle sale held during the "October Tryst" each year, when the surrounding fields and hillsides would be black with some 30,000 cattle, some from as far away as Caithness and the Outer Hebrides.
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