Tomintoul

Tomintoul (pronounced Tomin - ' taʊl; gaelic Tom t- Sabhail ) is 345 meters above sea level, the highest village in the county of Banffshire in the Scottish unitary authority Moray. According to the census of 2001, there were 322 people in Tomintoul.

History

The village of Tomintoul was founded in 1775 by Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon ( 1743-1827 ), also 7th Marquess of Huntly, established to encourage the scattered inhabitants of the surrounding country, to draw to a central point.

The villagers should their living expenses by textile production, a plan that failed. So did the first settlers of casual labor, animal husbandry and cultivation of small plots. The location of the place formerly favored the illicit distilling of whiskey - 1824 applied for one of his vassals as a first order a whiskey license. ( they also: List of Scottish distilleries)

The place is between the Avon to the west and the east Conglass and owes its location to the former military road (now the A939 ), which was built through the area in the decade after the Jacobite Rising of 1745. Also, here run several old cattle drive routes together from the surrounding hills.

Famous people

  • Percy Toplis (1896-1920) was one of the co-responsible in the mutiny at Etaples (1917 ); followed until 1920 and then shot in the street in Tomintoul. ( William Allison and John Fairley: The Monocled Mutineer, Quartet Books (1979 ) ISBN 0-7043-3287-6 )
  • Mary Barnes (1923-2001) was a British artist and writer. She lived from 1993 to 2001 in Tomintoul and was buried there.

Attractions

  • In Tomintoul Museum, information on history, geology and wildlife of the area as well as a reconstructed farmhouse kitchen and the implement of a blacksmith from 1926.
  • The distillery Tomintoul was built in 1965 at a height of 370 meters and is the second highest distillery in Scotland. She belongs to the famous ' Whisky Trail '.
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