Qualla: Aberfeldy https://qualla.com/aberfeldy en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Aberfeldy https://qualla.com/aberfeldy Aberfeldy: Introduction https://qualla.com/aberfeldy/ Had you seen these roads before they were made, you would lift up your hands and bless General Wade. Major William Caulfeild's couplet, written for the engineer who replaced Highland cattle tracks with proper military roads, sums up the place Aberfeldy was built to crystallise. The town sits where the Crieff to Dalnacardoch military road crossed the River Tay, and the bridge that carried it, designed by William Adam and completed in 1734, was the most expensive single structure in the whole Wade network. Aberfeldy grew up around that crossing in the 19th century as a resort for Victorians coming to take the waters and walk the birch glen south of town that had moved Robert Burns to verse. It has stayed that kind of town ever since.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/4/aberfeldy-wk/gfj4-aberfeldy-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Aberfeldy: Wade's Bridge https://qualla.com/aberfeldy/ The 1715 Jacobite rebellion had shown Edinburgh that the Highlands could not be controlled without a road network. General George Wade, Scotland's military commander from 1724 to 1740, set about building one. The Crieff to Dalnacardoch road, built in 1730, needed to cross the Tay...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/4/aberfeldy-wk/gfj4-aberfeldy-wades-bridge.mp3 0:06 2 full Aberfeldy: Burns and the Birks https://qualla.com/aberfeldy/ Robert Burns walked the birch glen south of the village in 1787, the year of his Highland tour. The glen rises steeply through silver birches to the Falls of Moness, and Burns turned what he saw into one of his pastoral lyrics, The Birks of Aberfeldy, set to a fiddle tune already...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/4/aberfeldy-wk/gfj4-aberfeldy-burns-and-the-birks.mp3 0:06 3 full Aberfeldy: The League of Extraordinary Communities https://qualla.com/aberfeldy/ Three miles west of Aberfeldy along the B846 lies the tiny farming hamlet of Dull. There was a monastery here in the 7th century; the carvings and grave slabs are now in the National Museum of Scotland. There is essentially nothing here now except the village sign. In 2012 Dull b...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/4/aberfeldy-wk/gfj4-aberfeldy-the-league-of-extraordinary-communities.mp3 0:06 4 full Aberfeldy: Schiehallion and Beyond https://qualla.com/aberfeldy/ West of Aberfeldy the country opens into bigger landscapes. Schiehallion, the conical Munro that Scots call the Mount Fuji of Scotland for its near-perfect shape, rises to 1,083 metres ten miles away. Its symmetry made its volume easy to calculate, and in 1774 astronomer Nevil Ma...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/4/aberfeldy-wk/gfj4-aberfeldy-schiehallion-and-beyond.mp3 0:06 5 full Aberfeldy: A Resort Town's Quiet Century https://qualla.com/aberfeldy/ Aberfeldy proper has 1,940 residents as of 2021, give or take. The main street has the Fountain Bar and the Black Watch Inn for drink, several cafes and curry houses for food, and a Coop open until 11pm. The Birks Cinema, a restored Art Deco building in the town centre, shows fil...

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