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called the Pitcairngreen Inn, a village hall and a green around which the village is built. Originally intended for industrial purposes, such as bleaching, the green now features impressive stands of oak and beech trees, as well as play facilities for the local children.
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created the village to provide housing for mill workers. The village's layout was designed in 1786 to have a green at the centre of it by
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There is a prehistoric burial cairn to the north-east of the village which is made from boulders from the
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villages. Stobie designed Pitcairngreen to be an industrial textile manufacturing village for
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textile factories is set out in the poem "The Scottish Village, or Pitcairngreen" by
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village as these are more commonly associated with traditional
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which is more or less adjoined to the much larger village of
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was used to power textile mills and the local nobleman
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Pitcairngreen is located in Perth and Kinross
Perth and Kinross
OS grid reference
NO064271
Council area
Perth and Kinross
Lieutenancy area
Perth and Kinross
Country
Scotland
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
PH1
Dialling code
Police
Scotland
Fire
Scottish
Ambulance
Scottish
UK Parliament
Ochil & South Perthshire
Scottish Parliament
North Tayside
North East Scotland
UK
Scotland
56°25′35″N 3°31′04″W / 56.4264°N 3.5178°W / 56.4264; -3.5178

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