River Ericht

The Ericht is a river in the Scottish Unitary Authority of Perth and Kinross. It is formed by the confluence of the rivers Blackwater and Ardle few hundred meters east of Bridge of Cally in the Grampian Mountains to about 150 m altitude. The Ericht is not to be confused with the second flow Ericht, which also runs through Perth and Kinross and flows over Loch Rannoch and Tummel in the Tay.

The first flows in a south-southeast direction Ericht along the A93, which it shortly before and a second time in Blairgowrie and Rattray crosses. Beyond Blairgowrie and Rattray turns the Ericht into ostsüdöstliche direction and led a few miles down river, about three kilometers east of Coupar Angus in the Isla.

In his entire term of ten kilometers of the Lunan Burn overcomes a difference in altitude of about 115 m. The bed of the fast-flowing river is rocky. In the 19th century, salmon and trout lived in Ericht whose existence, however, was decimated by industrial plants in Blairgowie and Rattray.

Bridge over the Ericht

The Ardle, one of the two sources of the Ericht