Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Faskally

Faskally, an estate, with a mansion, in Moulin parish, Perthshire, at the confluence of the rivers Tummel and Garry, 2 miles NW of Pitlochry. Nature and art have combined to render it 'a very pretty place,' as Queen Victoria styles it in her Journal, 11 Sept. 1844. Its owner, Archibald Butter, Esq. (b. and suc. 1805), held 17, 586 acres in the shire, valued at £5670 per annum.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "an estate, with a mansion"   (ADL Feature Type: "land parcels")
Administrative units: Moulin ScoP       Perthshire ScoCnty
Place: Faskally

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