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ALYTH, town on east border of Perthshire, and parish, partly also on west border of Forfarshire. The town stands on a burn of its own name, at terminus of branch railway, 5J miles north-west of Alyth Junction and 5 north-east of Blairgowrie, carries on woollen and linen manufacture, and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Meigle, 3 banking offices, an Established Norman church of 1839, Free, United Presbyterian, and Episcopal churches, and 2 public schools with about 238 scholars. Pop. 2377. The parish is about 15 miles long, and com-prises 19,972 acres in Perthshire, and 3324 in Forfarshire. Real property in 1880-81 of the Perthshire part, 23,766 ; of the Forfarshire part, 1296. Pop. 3521. A tract of about 15 square miles is. part of Strathmore, low and fertile, and the other tracts ascend thence to ward the Grampians, and are variously cultivated ground, moor, moss, and mountain. Chief objects are Mount Blair Mountain, King's Seat Hill, Sir James H. Ramsay's seat of Bamff House, Balhary and Jordanstone mansions, Inverquiech Castle ruins, and a notable Pictish entrenchment. There are 4 schools for 562 scholars, and one of them, for 300, is new.
