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Walking The Ochil Hills ---Wood Hill.
The Wood Hill, between Alva and Tillicoultry, is what remains of the grounds of Alva House (now demolished) and is now the Ochil Hills Woodland Park. As well as attractive walks in deciduous woodland, the park has a children's play area, a number of picnic sites and display boards describing the former grandeur of the old estate. Woodhill Wood is located on the southern slope of the Ochil Hills, between the villages of Alva and Tillicoultry, to the north of the A91. The OS grid reference for ...
Glendevon---Perthshire---Scotland
A traverse through the Ochil Hills from Auchterarder to Glen Devon, on an ancient right of way used by travelling packmen hundreds of years ago. Scenic Glen Devon, near Auchterarder, cuts a green swathe through the Ochil Hills. It stretches south eastwards from the source of the River Devon to Yetts 0' Muckhart. For the motorist, the main route through the glen offers attractive vistas, north to the famous Gleneagles Hotel and the mountains around Loch Earn, south into the heart of the glen ...
The Ochil Hills .... Climbing The Law Via Tilly Glen
THE LAW Height: 638m / 2093ft Grid Ref: NS910996 OS Landranger Maps: Sheet(s) 58 The Ochil Hills ( pronounced oʊxəl ) (from the Celtic (specifically Old Welsh) uchel meaning 'high') is a range of hills in Scotland north of the Forth valley bordered by the towns of Stirling, Alloa, Kinross and Perth. The only major roads crossing the hills pass through Glen Devon/Glen Eagles and Glenfarg, the latter now largely replaced except for local traffic by the M90 Edinburgh-Perth motorway cutting ...
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Ancient Scottish Graveyard (Tillicoultry)
The original Parish Church was built in the precincts of Tillicoultry House (at the top of Fir Park). Nothing remains of this building now but there is an old graveyard in this area. In 1773 a new church was built slightly to the east of the present building.
