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*[http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/resistg8/maps1/images/hillwalks/craigentagget/0607craigentagget01.htm View] through Glen Eagles to the [[Gleneagles Hotel]], named after the glen. |
*[http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/resistg8/maps1/images/hillwalks/craigentagget/0607craigentagget01.htm View] through Glen Eagles to the [[Gleneagles Hotel]], named after the glen. |
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*[http://www.direct.gov.uk/Gtgl1/GuideToGovernment/InternationalBodies/InternationalBodiesArticles/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4003091&chk=h%2Bl9pN History of the G8] – UK government site |
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Latest revision as of 10:41, 17 June 2024
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Glen Eagles (Scottish Gaelic: Gleann na h-Eaglais/Gleann Eagas) is a glen which connects with Glen Devon to form a pass through the Ochil Hills of Perth and Kinross in Scotland. (The spelling as two words, 'Glen Eagles', is as shown on UK Ordnance Survey maps.)
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 which owns the Gleneagles estate.[1]
Gleneagles House at the northern entrance to Gleneagles comprises a 1750 extension to an earlier 17th-century building that is approached by an avenue of lime trees planted to commemorate the Battle of Camperdown. Little remains of Gleneagles Castle, the early 16th-century tower house of the Haldanes.
The Caledonian Railway Company used its name for the Gleneagles Hotel and golf course they built some distance from the glen at the edge of Auchterarder. The hotel hosted the 31st G8 summit conference in July 2005.
Gleneagles railway station, formerly known as Crieff Junction, is on the line between Perth and Stirling. As its name suggests, this was the junction for the Crieff Junction Railway, which closed in 1964.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Place name of the week: Gleneagles - Gleann Eagais". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
External links
[edit]- View through Glen Eagles to the Gleneagles Hotel, named after the glen.
56°14′38″N 3°42′34″W / 56.2439°N 3.7094°W
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