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AUCHTERARDER, town and parish in south-east of Perthshire. The town stands about a mile from a railway station of its own name, 14 miles south-west of Perth ; dates from ancient times, and was once a royal burgh ; passed through long declension and much disaster, but eventually became a prosperous seat of manufacture ; figured in the first and not the least of the church conflicts which led to the Disruption of 1843 ; comprises a main street upwards of ;i mile long, and has a head post office with all departments, 2 banking offices, 2 hotels, a towered town-hall of 1872, Established, Free, United Presbyterian, and Evangelical Union churches, and 2 public schools. Pop. 2666. The parish contains also Aberuthven, Smithyhaugh, and Borland-Park villages, and measures nearly 8 miles in length and about 3 miles in breadth. Acres, 11,181. Real erty in 1880-81, 19,452. Pop. 3648. northern section undulates or declines to the river Earn, and is nearly all arable; and the southern section rises toward the summit line of the Ochil Hills. Chief seats are Auchterarder Castle and Auchterarder House ; and a chief antiquity is the fragment of a strong castle of Malcolm Canmore. There are 5 schools for 671 scholars, and2of them,for 360,are new.
