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For your ideal holiday in Scotland, consider staying at the Morrison's Holiday Cottages based in the Heart of this Beautiful Country.

 

Many flights come to Scotland from all over Europe and there are daily flights direct from Atlanta and Newark with Delta and Continental Airlines arriving into Edinburgh and Glasgow. So go on, visit Scotland for a break in a beautiful country.

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Morrisons Holiday Cottages Auchterarder Gleneagle, , United Kingdom | Self Catering UK

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Welcome to The Morrison's Holiday Self Catering, family run Cottages in Auchterarder.
Fine Self-catering Cottage in Perthshire, near Gleneagles Scotland United Kingdom

Auchterarder is also situated in the Vale of Strathearn.

Tel:Country code if calling from outside the UK is 44

01764662369 or 07718884428

We are a member of the Association of Scottish Self Caterers - Embrace Scotland.

We have been welcoming guests from around the world for 18 years. Our cottages were built in 1709.

Each cottage can sleep 4 - 6 depending on sleeping arrangements.  We can also provide a child's cot and high chair.   All prices include electric, linen and towels. Please contact us on 01764 662369 or mobile  07718884428 or email info@morrisonsholidayhomes.com  Also shorter breaks available.

 

IMPORTANT RE ONLINE BOOKING.

JANUARY.

Booking online is unavailable for the above months although we DO HAVE SOME AVAILABLILITY.  Please contact us by phone or email for the above months.  We are open all year.

We may have some SPECIAL LATE OFFERS FEBRUARY, MARCH AND APRIL - please call us or email us for any SPECIAL OFFER availability.

 

Telephone us on 01764 662369

or 07718884428.

Email: info@morrisonsholidayhomes.com

or use our quick enquiry form.

 

Contact us for SPECIAL OFFERS during January, February and March. 

Short breaks available.  Please phone 01764 662369 or 07718884428 for prices.

 

Check out What's On In Perthshire When you plan to Visit

 

Please note - if you do not receive a reply please look in your junk mail box as mail from us has been known to go into our guests junk mail  box resulting in them thinking we have not replied.  We reply to every enquiry. PLEASE NOTE WE TAKE BOOKINGS  FOR ENTRY ON ANY DAY OF THE WEEK SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY.
Morrisons Holiday Homes offers a discount when only two people are sharing.
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Gleneagles Golf Course in the Spring.


Morrisons Holiday Homes are very comfortable and well equipped self catering cottage accommodation in Perthshire.  Each cottage sleeps 4 - 6 children depending on sleeping arrangements.  The double bedrooms each have KING SIZE BEDS and there are Flat Screen TV's with Free View as well as DVD's in both lounges.   We do not have Video's now.  WI FI can be accessed FREE in the owners home close to the cottages but subject to availability.  
  • Please contact us for any SPECIAL offers we may have during 2012
  • Short breaks available - contact us for further details

Dairy Cottage AuchterarderWelcome to The Old Dairy Cottage self-catering holiday cottages situated in the Royal Burgh of Auchterarder in scenic Perthshire Scotland. This unique cottage accommodation dates back to 1709.

  • The downstairs holiday cottage is the original cottage and has an ensuite bedroom with KING SIZE BED as well as a bathroom (sleeps 4 -6 depending on sleeping arrangements). 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 4 -6 depending on sleeping arrangements. There is a KING SIZE BED in the double room  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 8 - 12 depending on sleeping arrangements. Both holiday cottages are very spacious, very well equipped,very comfortable and warm.
  • Auchterarder is located 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.  Visit D & R Johnston a wonderful family shoe shop in Auchterarder.

Events in Perth Perthshire Edinburgh Glasgow Stirling and surrounding areas during 2012

Edinburgh Military Tattoo at Edinburgh Castle.  3rd - 25th August 2012.

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.

Scottish Game Fair to be held at Scone Palace from Friday 29th June - Sunday 1st July 2012

Edinburgh Fringe Festival - August 2012.

The fringe festival is held in the vibrant, historic city of Edinburgh.  It's the biggest arts festival in the world, with something for everyone: theatre, comedy, music, dance, exhibitions and much, much more. In fact, it's the number-one tourist attraction in the whole of Britain.

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 - to be held 23rd - 26th August 2012. Diageo is proud to be the host and sponsor of the 2012 Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles. Held over The PGA Centenary Course, venue for the 2014 Ryder Cup, this is one of the leading events on The PGA European Tour International Schedule of Events and will welcome some of the best golfers in the world to one of the most beautiful places in the world.

The Ryder Cup is being held at Gleneagles from 26th to the September to 28th 2014.

Galloway Antiques Fairs click on website for venues of Galloway Antiques Fairs.

Glamis Castle - childhood home of the late Queen Mother - apporx 45 minute drive from Morrisons Holiday Homes.

 

Blair Drummond and Adventure Safari Park - near Stirling.  A great day out for the family.

Find out about the role the safari Park plays in the protection and conservation of endangered species.

British Airways Flights.  Book British Airways Flights and save on tickets on CheapOair, book today using CheapOair's exclusive travel coupon.

Scottish Antiques Centre : A great place to visit - Visitor Centre in Perthshire (Abernyte) and Stirlingshire (Doune). Antiques, design led furniture, art, luxury food shop, Ruryk Fare and restaurant, Cafe Circa. Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm.


 

 

Perthshire Snowdrop Festival: - 4th February - 18th March 2012.

After the busy festive period, refresh your senses at a surprising variety of locations during the Scottish Snowdrop Festival, 4 February to 18 March 2012.

The sun shines on the sandy coloured turrets of Culzean Castle.

Taking place at over 50 gardens across Scotland’s mainland, the festival is a great chance to get out in the fresh air and explore your local area, visit gardens and parks - some of which are open especially for the festival - and enjoy around 300 types of this delicate white flower which appears to defeat the cold winter by bursting into life each year.

Perth Festival of The Arts - 17th - 27th May 2012.

Visit Loch Katrine in the Heart of the Trossachs. Approx 40 minutes from Morrisons Holiday Cottages

The National Wallace Monument in Stirling - 15 to 20 minutes drive from Morrisons Holiday Homes. Standing tall and proud outside the city of Stirling, and overlooking the scene of Scotland's victory at The Battle of Stirling Bridge.

Pitlochry Festival Theatre is a wonderful place to spend a summer evening. Click to see what is on.

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 - July2011 May 2012. - McDiarmid Park Perth. www.perthstjohnstonefc.co.uk

Perth Farmers Market held in King Edward Street Perth - please click for dates of markets.

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.

Scotland's Gardens Scheme in Perth and Kinross and Stirlingshire - Visit Scotland's Gardens Scheme to discover what gardens are well worth a visit.

Stirling Albert Halls:-

Click here for a full programme of events.

Perth Concert Hall Events - click to see programme.

Many more events being held at Scone Palace please click for programme of events

 

Perth Races at Scone Palace  Click here for horse racing events at Scone Palace.


Visit 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 The New Transport Museum and many more Museeums in Glasgow most of which are FREE entry.

 

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.

The National Museum of Scotland is now open and entry is FREE - Explore the diversity of the natural world, world cultures and design, science and technology and Scottish history all under one roof.

Visit Historic Stirling - 20 minutes drive from Morrisons Holiday Homes.

Stirling is one of Scotland’s oldest towns and its newest city.With a setting of mountains, rocky crags and the winding river Forth, Stirling is ‘the brooch which clasps together the Highlands and the Lowlands'.

The city is the gateway to Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, Scotland’s first national park.

‘He who holds Stirling holds Scotland’ – advice that fired William Wallace and Robert the Bruce. Stirling was the battlefield of a young nation – experience the heritage today.

Visit St. Andrews - The Home of Golf

Welcome to St Andrews Links, the Home of Golf, where the game has been nurtured and developed for 600 years. Journey time from Morrisons Holiday Homes approx 50minutes.

Further information about Perth Concert Hall events go to www.horsecross.co.uk

Highland Games events in Scotland for 2011. 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.

Bannockburn Battlefield 1314 - 30 minutes drive from Morrisons Holiday Cottages.

Here in 1314, in one of the defining moments in Scottish history, King Robert the Bruce routed the English forces of King Edward II to win a much-longed-for freedom for the Scots.

Statue of Robert Burns at the Birks of AberfeldyHistory 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 Castle near PderthElcho 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.

Falls of BruarFor those looking for a more flexible holiday, Scotland has a huge range of tourist hotspots to visit, such as Edinburgh and Glasgow for Shopping, Shows. The scenery in Scotland is breath taking and all is very accessible from Morrison's Holiday Cottages, based in Auchterarder, in the Heart of Scotland!

Maybe you're planning a romantic break with your partner, or an action-packed holiday with the kids, or an adventure holiday with your mates, or simply taking some time out for a solitary sojourn... Morrison's Holiday Cottages make the perfect base for your visit.

Whatever your requirements, whether it's business or leisure, short break or long term stay, you're sure to find what you're looking at Morrison's.

We offer excellent accommodation with our 3 star self-catering accommodation. We are based within easy reach of every area of Scotland, including St. Andrews, Carnoustie, Edinburgh, the Borders, Glasgow, Ayr, Perth and the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Visit us for your perfect break!

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Proprietors: Norman and Hazel Morrison
The Old Dairy Cottage, The Old Dairy, Townhead, Auchterarder, Perthshire
Tel: / Fax: +44(0)1764-662369 E-Mail: enquiries@morrisonsholidayhomes.com