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A Beautiful location in Highland Perthshire
The Aberfeldy Weem Hotel - a quite delightful small highland country inn-style hotel, formerly a historic Coaching Inn situated at the foot of Weem Rock, near Aberfeldy. The hotel was the barracks for General Wade’s troops building the nearby famous Wades bridge over the river Tay in the 18th century.
Weem is a village on the B846 right on the peaceful outskirts of Aberfeldy in Perthshire, Scotland. Nearby is the 16th century Castle Menzies, where Bonnie Prince Charlie spent two nights on his way to the Battle of Culloden in 1746.
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The Old Parish Church of Weem, of medieval origin, contains the funerary monuments of the Menzies family going back to the 16th century, and the heraldic hatchments carried at their funerals. You can get the key from neighbouring cottage. Weem Wood lies on a steep craggy slope above the village of Weem just to the north-west of Aberfeldy. This ancient woodland is home to many legends of dragons and demons that haunted the cliffs and caves.
The walk rises steeply culminating with a fine view at St. David's Well, a hermit's retreat used by St. Cuthbert in the early days of Christianity. St. David, the laird's son from nearby Castle Menzies occupied it later when he took on austere religious life in the fifteenth century.
The wood contains many fine specimen trees planted by the Menzies family in the nineteenth century to provide a spectacular backdrop to the castle and gardens. At this time Perthshire was at the forefront of the renaissance of Scottish forestry with many newly discovered species being introduced from abroad.
So - combine the charm of this quiet little highland hamlet area, with the thriving but gentle pace of nearby Aberfeldy and its surrounding area, its historic castle, mill, distillery (Dewars World of Whisky), the nearby 2,500 year old crannog centre which paints a fascinating picture of early Iron Age life, and, at every turn, the quite glorious landscape of Highland Perthshire.
And at nearby Kenmore you can enjoy unrivalled views of Loch Tay.
