Glen Eagles
Glen Eagles is a glen that connects with Glen Devon to form a pass through the Ochil Hills of Perth and Kinross in Scotland. The name's origin has nothing to do with eagles, and is a corruption of eaglais or ecclesia, meaning church, and refers to the chapel and well of Saint Mungo, which was restored as a memorial to the Haldane family that owns the Gleneagles estate.- Type: Village
- Description: valley in the Ochil Hills, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Gleann Eagas” and “Gleneagles”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gleneagles Hotel and Gleneagles railway station.
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 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.
Tullibardine Chapel
Church
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tullibardine Chapel is an ancient church building in Tullibardine, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It is one of the most complete medieval churches in Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tullibardine and Blackford.
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 1½ miles north of Glen Eagles.
Blackford
Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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. Blackford is situated 2 miles southwest of Glen Eagles.
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. It is also once part of the historic county of Perthshire. Auchterarder is situated 2 miles northeast of Glen Eagles.
Glen Eagles
- Categories: glen, valley, and locality
- Location: Perth and Kinross, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.28302° or 56° 16′ 59″ northLongitude
-3.75247° or 3° 45′ 9″ westOpen location code
9C8R76MX+62OpenStreetMap ID
node 5973175591OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageWikidata ID
Q525841
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Welsh—“Glen Eagles” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Gleann Eagas”
- Cebuano: “Glen Eagles”
- Chinese: “格伦伊格尔斯”
- Chinese: “格倫伊格爾斯”
- Chinese: “格蘭伊格爾斯”
- Cornish: “Gleann Eagas”
- Dutch: “Gleneagles”
- Esperanto: “Gleneagles”
- French: “Gleneagles”
- German: “Gleneagles”
- Hebrew: “גלניגלס”
- Indonesian: “Gleneagles, Skotlandia”
- Irish: “Gleann Eagas”
- Irish: “Gleann na h-Eaglais”
- Italian: “Gleneagles”
- Japanese: “グレニーグルズ”
- Japanese: “グレンイーグルズ”
- Manx: “Gleann Eagas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gleneagles”
- Norwegian: “Gleneagles”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gleann Eagas”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gleann na h-Eaglais”
- Spanish: “Gleneagles”
- Swedish: “Glen Eagles”
- Welsh: “Gleann Eagas”
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