Aberfeldy

Town and former burgh in Perth and Kinross unitary authority, Scotland, on the right bank of the River Tay, 35 km/22 mi northwest of Perth; population (2001) 1,900. Aberfeldy is a largely Victorian market town and holiday centre, having developed around small woollen mills, and later becoming a summer holiday resort. Tourism and distilling are the principal industries.

Aberfeldy Distillery (the Dewar distillery), which dates from 1896, incorporating a new visitor centre and interactive museum of whisky, opened in 2000. Other tourist attractions include a watermill, restored in the 19th century, and the silver birch trees which line the banks of Urlar Burn as it flows into the River Tay at Aberfeldy. The Scottish Crannog Centre on the shores of Loch Tay, 6 km/3.7 mi from Aberfeldy, is a reconstruction of a lochside dwelling of over 2500 years old.

The river is spanned at Aberfeldy by a bridge erected by the military roadbuilder George Wade in 1733. Designed by the architect William Adam, the bridge is of a hump-backed construction with five arches.