Historic SitePerthshireNational Trust for Scotland
Free entry for National Trust members
This place is cared for by the National Trust for Scotland, a separate charity. Under the INTO reciprocal visiting arrangement, National Trust members from England, Wales and Northern Ireland get free standard entry. Show your current membership card at admissions.
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Free for everyone.
Pay and display car parks in the town. Not a Trust car park, so membership does not cover it.
Several pay and display car parks in Dunkeld; the North Car Park has public toilets with disabled facilities. Everything is within easy walking distance.
Dunkeld is a small cathedral town on the north bank of the Tay, an early centre of Celtic Christianity that was burned in the fighting after the Battle of Killiecrankie in 1689 and rebuilt as the neat little burgh seen today. The National Trust for Scotland restored 20 of the 17th and 18th-century houses along Cathedral Street and The Cross between 1954 and 1965, one of its earliest conservation projects, and most are still lived in, so the visit is a walk: pastel houses leading to the half-ruined cathedral, the Atholl Memorial Fountain with its carved wildlife where the market cross stood, the Trust's Ell Shop with an old cloth measure by the door, and salmon leaping in the Tay from Telford's bridge. Dogs are welcome. Reviewers rate the town for its walks, folk music and cafes. Tips from visitors: everything is within easy walking distance, there are several pay and display car parks with toilets at the North Car Park, and the Hermitage is a mile away.
The restored houses are homes and offices, seen from the street. The Ell Shop at The Cross is the Trust's shop.
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Mile-long walk along the south banks of the Tay and Braan with views of Dunkeld Cathedral, part of the longer Birnam Circular Walk; pay and display parking in Dunkeld.
