Pitcairngreen

Pitcairngreen
Pitcairngreen  Pitcairngreen shown within Perth and Kinross
OS grid reference	NO0648227138
Council area	Perth and Kinross
Lieutenancy area	Perth and Kinross
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	PERTH
Postcode district	PH1
Dialling code	01738
Police	Scottish
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
EU Parliament	Scotland
UK Parliament	Ochil & South Perthshire
Scottish Parliament	North Tayside
	North East Scotland
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Pitcairngreen (pronounced 'Pit-cairn Green') is a hamlet / very small village in Perth and Kinross which is more or less adjoined to the much larger village of Almondbank. It lies around 4 miles northwest of Perth, and as its name would suggest, two features of the settlement are a green and a cairn.

The Village's layout was designed in 1786 to have a green at the centre of it by James Stobie factor to John Murray, the 4th Duke of Atholl.The presence of a village green is unusual for a Scottish village as these are more commonly associated with traditional English villages. Stobie designed Pitcairngreen to be an industrial textile manufacturing village for Thomas Graham, a textile manufacturer. Its rivalry with the Manchester textile factories is set out in the poem "The Scottish Village, or Pitcairngreen" by Hannah Cowley which starts with the lines:

"Go Manchester and weep thy slighted loom

its arts are cherished now in Pitcairne Green."

Amenities

The village has a pub called the Pitcairngreen Inn, a village hall and a park or green which the village is built around.

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