St Martins, Perth and Kinross

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St Martins is a parish in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, just north of the Sidlaws range of hills, about 4.3 miles (6.9 km) north-northeast of Perth and 1.2 miles (1.9 km) northwest of Balbeggie.^[1] The parish is named for Martin of Tours, of Lower Hungary.^[2]

Perth Airport, at Scone, is 1 mile (1.6 km) to the south, and the parish is beneath the climb-out of aircraft departing from runway 03.^[3]

The parish is mentioned in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, in a scene in which the title character meets with two witches on a moor in the parish. The location is marked by today's Witches' Stone.^[4]

Notable people

• William Davidson Bissett, recipient of the Victoria Cross
• William Macdonald Mackenzie, architect, was born in the parish^[5]
• John Simpson, recipient of the Victoria Cross

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