Blackford
Blackford is located in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, approximately 5 miles from the town of Auchterarder. The village is located just off the A9 between Perth and Stirling which has been bypassed since 1978.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 930 residents
- Description: town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Blackford, Perth and Kinross”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gleneagles railway station and Gleneagles Hotel.
Gleneagles railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gleneagles railway station serves the town of Auchterarder in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Gleneagles railway station is situated 2 miles northeast of Blackford.
Gleneagles Hotel
Hotel
Photo: Simon Ledingham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gleneagles Hotel is a hotel near Auchterarder, Scotland. It was commissioned by the Caledonian Railway and opened in 1924. The bandleader Henry Hall performed at the hotel before the Second World War during which it served as a military hospital. Gleneagles Hotel is situated 2 miles northeast of Blackford.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tullibardine and Auchterarder.
Tullibardine
Hamlet
Photo: paul birrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tullibardine is a location in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, which gives its name to a village, a castle and a grant of nobility. The village of Tullibardine is a settlement of approximately forty dwellings about 10 miles southwest of Perth. Tullibardine is situated 3½ miles northeast of Blackford.
Auchterarder
Town
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Auchterarder is a town north of the Ochil Hills in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, and home to the Gleneagles Hotel. The 1+1⁄2-mile-long High Street of Auchterarder gave the town its popular name of "The Lang Toun" or Long Town. Auchterarder is situated 4 miles northeast of Blackford.
Braco
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Braco is a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, with a population of 515. It is located 5 miles north of Dunblane towards Perth off the A9 road. Braco is situated 4 miles west of Blackford.
Blackford
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Perth and Kinross, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.26096° or 56° 15′ 39″ northLongitude
-3.781° or 3° 46′ 52″ westPopulation
930Elevation
417 feet (127 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BFROpen location code
9C8R7669+9HOpenStreetMap ID
node 287596924OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Blackford” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Blackford”
- Basque: “Blackford”
- Cebuano: “Blackford”
- Dutch: “Blackford”
- German: “Blackford”
- Irish: “Srath Gaoithe”
- Italian: “Blackford”
- Japanese: “ブラックフォード”
- Persian: “بلکفورد”
- Scots: “Blackford”
- Scots: “Blackfuird”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Srath Gaoithe”
- Spanish: “Blackford (Perth and Kinross)”
- Spanish: “Blackford”
- Swedish: “Blackford”
- Welsh: “Blackford, Perth a Kinross”
- Welsh: “Blackford”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Blackford”. Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.