Burrelton

Human settlement in Scotland

Burrelton-Cargill

Council area

Perth and Kinross

Perth and Kinross

CountryScotlandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townBLAIRGOWRIEPostcode districtPH13Dialling code01828PoliceScotlandFire Scottish AmbulanceScottish UK Parliament

Perth and North Perthshire

Scottish Parliament

Perth
Mid Scotland and Fife

List of places: UK; Scotland

56°31′06″N 3°18′12″W / 56.518195°N 3.303398°W / 56.518195; -3.303398

Burrelton is a small village in Scotland about 12 miles (19 kilometres) outside Perth. It is joined onto another smaller village, Woodside.^[2] The population in 2001 was 621.^[3]

Education

The village is home to a small primary school called Burrelton Primary School.^[4] Pupils typically progress to one of the associated high schools, Perth Academy, or Blairgowie High School.^[5]

Transportation

Woodside and Burrelton railway station was opened by the Caledonian Railway, on the former Scottish Midland Junction Railway, running between Perth and Arbroath. It became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. Passing on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, it was then closed by the British Transport Commission.^[6]

Notable residents

James Lamond, former Labour MP was born here in 1928
Bill Walker, former MP of the Conservative Party lived close to the village

References

^ "Mid-2020 Population Estimates for Settlements and Localities in Scotland". National Records of Scotland. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
^ "Blairgowrie & Forest of Alyth", Ordnance Survey Landranger Map (B2 ed.), 2008, ISBN 0-319-23121-6
^ "Details of Burrelton". Scottish-places.info. 20 February 2002. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
^ "Burrelton Primary School". Burrelton.pkc.sch.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
^ "Burrelton Primary School". Perth & Kinross Council. 10 February 2017. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
^ Butt (1995), page 254