Luxury Hotels In Auchterarder

An Estate Base Near Auchterarder

Gleneagles gives the accommodation search a country-estate reference near Auchterarder. The town lies north of the Ochil Hills, placing a local stay beside a recognisable landscape rather than an unspecified Scottish country setting.

Auchterarder's long High Street gives the town a particular shape. For days beyond the estate, Dunning offers early medieval carving, while Drummond’s formal gardens provide a designed landscape to explore.

Pictish Carving At Dunning

Dunning adds a specific historical subject within Perthshire. St Serf's Church has Romanesque architectural features and houses the Dupplin Cross, an early ninth-century Pictish carving.

The cross’s panels include a harp-playing figure, a mounted rider and groups of foot soldiers, surrounded by interlace and other carved decoration. These images bring religious and military ideas of kingship into the stone. Choose Dunning for an interest in early medieval Scotland, with the church building and the older carved monument as distinct parts of the visit.

Drummond’s Formal Garden

At Drummond, near Crieff, a St Andrew’s Cross shapes the garden’s parterre around a seventeenth-century sundial. Terraces and steps lead down through the design.

A strong north–south line continues from the terrace through the sundial and a classical archway towards the kitchen garden, woodland and opposite hillside. That connection with the countryside follows a French approach, while fountains, terraces, urns and statuary give the garden an Italian influence.

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