The Scottish branch of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) is set to hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in the historic town of Dunkeld in Perthshire, on Saturday 27 October 2007.

The AGM is free to attend, and the day will include a walking tour of the surroundings, which begins at the Cross in the village centre, surrounded by the beautifully restored 17th Century 'Little Houses'. The walk will continue down to Dunkeld Cathedral, part ruined but still used by the community as the parish church. The tour will follow Scotland’s longest river, the Tay, and cross Thomas Telford's bridge (1809), leading into Birnam, a Victorian village.

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The name Dunkeld comes from the Gaelic for "the fort in the wood", and its recorded history dates back to the foundation here of a settlement by Culdee Monks around 730AD. Today Dunkeld is a rural village with whitewashed shops, cottages and hotels, where a great deal of work was undertaken in the 1950s and 1960s by the National Trust for Scotland and the Local Authority to restore many of the older buildings on Cathedral Street and adjacent to the Mercat Cross.

(CL/SP)