• The downstairs holiday cottage is the original cottage and has an ensuitebedroom as well as a bathroom (Sleeps up to 6 people). It is totally self-contained with its own entry door.
• The upstairs holiday cottage comprises of part of the original Old Dairy Cottage (1709) but also has a large extension to the rear where the entry door is. (Upstairs also sleeps up to 6 people). Click here to see the upstairs floor plan and here for the downstairs floor plan.
• The upstairs and downstairs holiday cottages can be made into one very large house and can sleep up to 12 people. Both holiday cottages are very spacious, very well equipped,very comfortable and warm.
• Auchterarder is based in the Heart of Scotland and is perfect holiday location for touring and also has many golf courses within 10 minutes drive.

Shopping in Auchterarder and Blackford

Auchterarder has many great individual shops and many people come from the big cities to shop in Auchterarder and Blackford Perthshire.  We have no parking charges and you can shop at a leisurely pace

Events in Perthshire Edinburgh Stirling and surrounding areas during 2009.
Edinburgh Military Tattoo at Edinburgh Castle. 7th - 29th August 2009. To hear the sound of the Pipes and Drums at Edinburgh Military Tattoo please click on the above heading. and click on Tattoo Experience. Edinburgh is only one hour by car or train from Morrisons Holiday Homes. Highland Adventure Safaris Aberfeldy. Award winning Adventure Safaris. Bring the great outdoors closer from our 4X4 landrovers on our Ecotours, wildlife-watching trips or exciting off-road driving experiences. Visit the website and read more about Gold Pannig days. Johnnie Walker Golf Championship at Gleneagles - Thursday 27th August to Sunday 30th August 2009. The Ryder Cup is being held at Gleneagles in 2014. Pitlochry Recreation Ground (Town Hall if wet) Highland Nights - click and get a taste of Pitlochry Highland Nights. Perth Race Dates at Scone Palace - Click on Perth Races for 2009 dates. Robert Burns - Scotland's National Bard born on 25th January 1759 - Scotland will celebrate the 250 years  this January with Burns suppers (Haggis, Neeps and Tatties), Burns songs, Burns Poems etc. Tam O'Shanter 30th January - 14th February at Perth Theatre. A highly visual musical and comical night to celebrate Robert Burns 250th anniversay, this is a Tam O'Shanter like you have never heard it or seen it before. Open Golf Championship - Turnberry - 16th - 19th July 2009.	Perth Festival of The Arts - 21st - 31st May 2009. Performances include The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Nicola Benedetti. Britains Best Breaks -Dundee, Angus and Perthshire - see our area of Southern Perthshire - www.britainsbestbreaks.co.uk and click on Video link for Dundee Angus and Perthshire. St. Johnstone FC Fixtures - 26th July 2008 - 9th May 2009. - McDiarmid Park Perth. www.stjohnstonefc.co.uk Crieff and Strathearn Monthly Farmers Market 2nd. Saturday of the month. -James Square Crieff 9.30am - 4pm. Pony Trekking on Exmoor Ponies in the Ochil Hills at Glendevon Perthshire and the Pentland Hills Edinburgh. Visit the website for more information. www.exmoorponytrekking.co.uk More Events listed under Local Events heading. Historic Occasion in 2010  Special Events will be marking the 800th anniversary of Perth. The foundation of Perth as a Roayl Burgh dates back to King William the Lion charter of 1210. Scotland's Gardens Scheme in Perth and Kinross and Stirlingshire - Visit Scotland's Gardens Scheme to discover what gardens are well worth a visit. Ramada Jarvis Perth Masters European Curling Event - 8 - 11 January at Dewars Rinks Perth. The Neil Gow Festival 20 - 22 March - Dunkeld and Birnam The 60th Niel Gow festival will feature some of Scotland's finest fiddlers as well as other top Scottish musicians. Homecoming Scotland 2009 - A hundred welcomes from Morrisons Holiday Homes to visitors coming to Auchterarder (Gleneagles) area to celebrate Homecoming Scotland. The Southperthire area is steeped in history and we are ready to welcome many people throughout the world who are coming to Scotland for the year of the homecoming. The first ever Homecoming year kicks off on the 24 and 25th January  - the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns - and throughtout the year over 100 exciting events will pay homeage to some of Scotland's great contributions to the world: Burns, Whisky, Golf, Great Minds and innovations to name but a few. Not forgetting of course the Open Golf Championship at Turnberry.  The Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, which will all carry the Homecoming theme for 2009	Glasgow is also a wonderful city to visit and is less than a one hour car or train journey from Morrisons Holiday Homes.  clidk to read about what's on. Visit Edinburgh and make this a must when visiting Scotland Click to read about whats on - Edinburgh is less than a one hour car or train journey from Morrisons Holiday Homes. Further information about Perth Concert Hall events go to www.horsecross.co.uk Highland Games events in Scotland for 2009. Please read all dates and locations of our Traditional Highland Games Events. Dundee Heritage Trust. Visit The Discovery Ship and Verdant Works in Dundee. Dundee Heritage Trust and its operating compnay Dundee Industrial Heritage Ltd are both registered charities fromed in 1985 to preserve and interpret Dundee's industrial past. Scottish Crannog Centre  - Aberfeldy. A crannog is a type of ancient loch-dwelling found throughout Scotland and Ireland dating from 5,000 years ago. Many crannogs were built out in the water as defensive homesteads and represented symbols of power and wealth. Yonex Scottish National Badminton Championships 30th January - 1st February - Bells Sports Centre Perth Gleneagles Spring Festival of Showjumping 27 - 29 March - Gleneagles Equestrian Centre - Three full days of top quality showjumping. Scottish Orienteering 6 day event in Perthshire 2nd. - 8th August 2009.

History of the Old Dairy Cottage

The Old Dairy Cottage dates back to 1709. The year in which Samuel Johnson was born, just two years after the Act of Union and six years before the uprising led by the Old Pretender, This historical building is situated in the Royal Burgh of Auchterarder a very attractive town in the Perthshire countryside close to the world famous Gleneagles Hotel

Our family have owned the cottage for many years, firstly in the 1920's when Norman's grandmother lived here and had a small croft with a few milk cows, hens and pigs. She sold milk in cans around the doors to her neighbours and was famous for her ice-cream which was made on the premises up until the 1940's. Many people came from near and far to sample Duncan's ice-cream.

In the 1940's Norman's father who came from Rothiemay, near Huntly in the North East of Scotland, married his mother then Janet Duncan and carried on the family croft later buying a larger milk business and expanded considerably delivering milk in glass bottles in Auchterarder, Gleneagles and surrounding areas.

Norman was brought up at The Old Dairy Cottage and carried on the family business until 1996 when the milk round was sold.

In 1994 we totally renovated the cottage into two cottages and since then have welcomed guests from all over the world. Norman and Hazel live beside the cottages in The Old Dairy Yard and have three grown up daughters, who have all flown the nest.

When you stay at Morrison's Holiday Homes you can be assured of our personal attention at all times. We do our very best to make sure that our guests enjoy their visit to Perthshire.

Elcho Castle (approx 20minutes drive from Morrisons Holiday Homes) - well worth a vist.

Elcho has been in the ownership of the Wemyss family for five and a half centuries, if not longer. It was part of the possessions confirmed to Sir John Wemyss of Wemyss by James III in 1468, and is still owned by the earls of Wemyss. The date when the present castle began to be built is uncertain, though it was probably in the third quarter of the sixteenth century. We know that the lands were confirmed to Sir John Wemyss in 1552, and this may have been a way of ensuring that his title to it was sound before he started a major campaign of rebuilding. He was certainly able to sign a charter at Elcho in 1558, though that does not necessarily mean that the new house was complete, since there must already have been a house on the site before the one we now see. However, there is a record that in 1570 the laird of Wemyss owed the late Thomas Bryson or Boynting the sum of £7 for ironwork, and it is tempting to suspect that this was for the wrought iron grilles or yetts at the windows and main doorway, and that the main work was complete by then.