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Balquhidder

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Balquhidder (Both Chuidir or Both Phuidir) is a small village in the Stirling council area of Scotland. [1]

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Albert Armitage

Albert Borlase Armitage (2 July 1864 – 31 October 1943) was a Scottish polar explorer and captain in the Royal Navy.

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Auchlyne

Auchlyne (Scottish Gaelic: Achadh Loinne) is a small hamlet in Stirling, Scotland.

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Auchtubh

Auchtubh is a hamlet in the Stirling council area of Scotland, less than to the east of the village of Balquhidder.

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Breadalbane, Scotland

Breadalbane —from Scottish Gaelic Bràghad Albainn, "the upper part of Alba"—is a region of the southern/central Scottish Highlands, traditionally comprising the watershed of Loch Tay (ie. Glen Dochart, Glen Lochay, and the banks of Loch Tay itself).

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Buckie

Buckie (Bucaidh) is a burgh town (defined as such in 1888) on the Moray Firth coast of Scotland.

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Buddhism in Scotland

The arrival of Buddhism in Scotland is relatively recent.

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Callander

Callander (Calasraid) is a small town in the council area of Stirling, Scotland, situated on the River Teith.

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Clan MacLaren

Clan MacLaren (Clann mhic Labhrainn) is a Highland Scottish clan.

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David Carnegie (entrepreneur)

David Carnegie, Sr. (8 February 1772, Montrose, Angus – 10 January 1837) was a Scottish entrepreneur who founded D. Carnegie & Co. in Gothenburg, Sweden, today known as Carnegie Investment Bank.

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David McGregore

David McGregore (November 6, 1710 – May 30, 1777), also known as McGregor, MacGregore or MacGregor, was a Presbyterian Minister and Member of the Colonial America Christian Clergy.

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Dugald Buchanan

Dugald Buchanan (Dùghall Bochanan in Gaelic) (Ardoch Farm, Strathyre (near Balquhidder) in Perthshire, Scotland 1716–1768) was a Scottish poet writing in Scots and Scottish Gaelic.

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Edinample Castle

Edinample Castle is a late 16th-century castle on the southern shores of Loch Earn near Balquhidder in the Stirling council area of Scotland.

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Fairy ring

A fairy ring, also known as fairy circle, elf circle, elf ring or pixie ring, is a naturally occurring ring or arc of mushrooms.

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FK postcode area

The FK postcode area, also known as the Falkirk postcode area, is a group of postcode districts around Alloa, Alva, Bonnybridge, Callander, Clackmannan, Crianlarich, Denny, Dollar, Doune, Dunblane, Falkirk, Grangemouth, Killin, Larbert, Lochearnhead, Menstrie, Sauchie, Stirling and Tillicoultry in Scotland.

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Geoffrey Love

Geoffrey Robert Stuart Love (19 April 1889 – 6 February 1978) was an English first-class cricketer active 1920–28 who played for Middlesex.

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George H. Steuart (politician)

George Hume Steuart, (1700–1784) was a Scottish physician, tobacco planter, and Loyalist politician in colonial Maryland.

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George Washington Browne

Sir George Washington Browne FRIBA (21 September 1853 – 15 June 1939) was a British architect.

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James "Beg" Stewart

James "Beag" Stewart (c1424-1470) of Baldorran was the seventh illegitimate son of James Mor Stewart (known as "James the Fat"), who fled into exile in Ireland when his father Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany was executed for treason by James I of Scotland in 1425.

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James Black (pharmacologist)

Sir James Whyte Black (14 June 1924 – 22 March 2010) was a Scottish physician and pharmacologist.

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James Cameron

James Francis CameronSpace Foundation.

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John Stuart (explorer)

John Stuart (12 September 1780 – 14 January 1847) was a nineteenth-century Scottish-Canadian explorer and fur trader.

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Kingshouse railway station

Kingshouse was a railway station located at the hamlet of Kingshouse, Stirling where the road from Balquhidder joins the A84.

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List of castles in Stirling (council area)

This is a list of castles in the Stirling council area.

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List of civil parishes in Scotland

This is a list of the 871 civil parishes in Scotland.

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List of listed buildings in Balquhidder, Stirling

This is a list of listed buildings in the parish of Balquhidder in Stirling, Scotland.

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List of lochs of Scotland

This list of lochs in Scotland includes the majority of bodies of standing freshwater named as lochs but only a small selection of the generally smaller, and very numerous, lochans.

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List of towns and villages in the Scottish Highlands

List of town and villages in the Highlands of Scotland.

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List of United Kingdom locations: Bab-Bal

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Loch Doine

Loch Doine is a small freshwater loch that lies to the west of Balquhidder in the Trossachs and Teith ward within Stirling council area of Scotland.

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Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park

Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park (Pàirc Nàiseanta Loch Laomainn is nan Tròisichean) is a national park in Scotland centred on Loch Lomond, and includes several ranges of hills and the Trossachs.

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Loch Voil

Loch Voil (Loch a' Bheothail) is a small freshwater loch that lies to the west of Balquhidder in the Stirling council area of Scotland.

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Lochearnhead

Lochearnhead (Scottish Gaelic: Ceann Loch Èireann) is a village on the A84 Stirling to Crianlarich road at the foot of Glen Ogle, north of the Highland Boundary Fault.

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MacCrimmon (piping family)

The MacCrimmons (Gaelic: MacCruimein) were a Scottish family, pipers to the chiefs of Clan MacLeod for an unknown number of generations.

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National Cycle Route 7

This route follows the Sea to Sea (C2C) cycle route for much of its length before the C2C departs to Whitehaven and NCN7 continues to Carlisle.

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Perthshire

Perthshire (Siorrachd Pheairt), officially the County of Perth, is a historic county and registration county in central Scotland.

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Pilkington Jackson

Charles d’Orville Pilkington Jackson ARSA, FRBS, FRSA (11 October 1887 – 20 September 1973) was a British sculptor prominent in Scotland in the 20th century.

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R. Crombie Saunders

Robert Crombie Saunders (23 April 1914 – 14 February 1991) was a poet, editor, journalist and teacher, and a significant figure in the Scottish Literary Renaissance of the 20th century.

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Rachel Chiesley, Lady Grange

Rachel Chiesley, usually known as Lady Grange (1679–1745), was the wife of Lord Grange, a Scottish lawyer with Jacobite sympathies.

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River Balvaig

The River Balvaig (Scottish Gaelic: "Abhainn Balvaig") is a short river approximately long draining from the head of Loch Voil near Balquhidder in Scotland and then passing southwards through the village of Strathyre before flowing into the northern end of Loch Lubnaig.

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Rob Roy MacGregor

Robert Roy MacGregor (Gaelic: Raibeart Ruadh MacGriogair; baptised 7 March 1671 – died 28 December 1734) was a Scottish outlaw, who later became a folk hero.

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Robert Kirk (folklorist)

Robert Kirk (9 December 1644 – 14 May 1692) was a minister, Gaelic scholar and folklorist, best known for The Secret Commonwealth, a treatise on fairy folklore, witchcraft, ghosts, and second sight, a type of extrasensory perception described as a phenomenon by the people of the Scottish Highlands.

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Sandy Lyle

Alexander Walter Barr "Sandy" Lyle, MBE (born 9 February 1958) is a Scottish professional golfer.

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Scottish Highlands

The Highlands (the Hielands; A’ Ghàidhealtachd, "the place of the Gaels") are a historic region of Scotland.

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Stewart of Balquhidder

Stewart of Balquhidder is a Perthshire branch of the Stewart clan.

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Stirling (council area)

The Stirling council area (Stirlin, Sruighlea) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and has a population of about (estimate).

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Stob Binnein

Stob Binnein is a mountain in the southern Highlands of Scotland, near Crianlarich.

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Strathyre

Strathyre (from Srath Eadhair) is a district and settlement in the Stirling local government district of Scotland.

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The 39 Steps (1959 film)

The 39 Steps is a 1959 British thriller film produced by Betty Box, directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Kenneth More and Taina Elg.

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The Solitary Reaper

"The Solitary Reaper" is a ballad by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and one of his best-known works.

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Trossachs

The Trossachs (Scottish Gaelic, Na Tròiseachan, meaning "bristly") generally refers to an area of wooded glens and braes with quiet lochs, lying to the east of Ben Lomond in the Stirling council area of Scotland.

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Walter Stewart, 3rd Laird of Baldorran

Walter Stewart (c.1480-1575), 3rd Laird of Baldorran, 2nd Bailie of Balquhidder, was a sixteenth-century Scottish landowner, and the ancestor of the Ardvorlich, Annat, and Glenfinglas Stewarts.

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West Perthshire (UK Parliament constituency)

West (or Western) Perthshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1918.

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William Stewart of Baldorran

Sir William Stewart (c.1440–c.1500), 2nd Laird of Baldorran, 1st Royal Bailie of the Crown lands of Balquhidder, was a fifteenth-century Scottish landowner, and founder of the Balquhidder Stewart clan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balquhidder

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