Blair Drummond

Blair Drummond (also Blair Drummond ) is a small rural community near Stirling in Scotland, located primarily along the A84.

Description

Blair Drummond has a Unitary Authority Primary School (known as Kincardine in Mentieth Primary School ), a church ( Church of Scotland ) and a town hall, which was built in 2005. Blair Drummond Safari Park has Scotland's single, the Blair Drummond Safari Park, and also a campsite in the old walled garden Blair Drummond House. A first residents of Blair Drummond House was Henry Home Kames Enlightenment thinkers, whose wife inherited the house in 1766. Lord Kames began the transformation of the Carse - area of Blair Drummond of an often diluted moss land in a agricultural area, which brought him an income of nearly £ 2,000 per year.

Blair Drummond House was completely rebuilt in 1868-1872 by James Campbell Walker and then again by James Bow Dunn, after a fire, 1921-1923 and is now a home for adults with learning disabilities, supervised by the Camphill movement.

Many residents of Blair Drummond are farmers, while others commute to Stirling, Edinburgh or Glasgow. Blair Drummond is currently in the unitary authority Stirling, although it was counted to Perthshire in the past to Central Scotland and before. Other municipalities that border Blair Drummond, are Gargunnock, Thornhill, Balfron and Doune. A council covers Thornhill and Blair Drummond from, and the census of 2001 for the municipal council of Thornhill and Blair Drummond made ​​a statement of population 1109.

Personalities

• William Downie Stewart, Sr., New Zealand politician