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ituated between the glen of the Avon and the vale of Conglass, Tomintoul was
founded in 1779 by Alexander 4th Duke of Gordon.
Tomintoul claims to be the highest village, at 1,160ft, in the Scottish Highlands (the highest village in Scotland being Wanlockhead). 
n the late 14th century these lands were held by Robert II, who later granted
them to his fourth son Alexander Stewart, who later became known in
Scotland's history as the notorious Wolf of Badenoch.
The feasibility of a village being sited here was impossible until the coming of the great military roads, which reached here in the early 1750's. This was a government project instigated after the final defeat of the Jacobite Cause at Culloden in 1745.
he site for Tomintoul was chosen because it marked the point where the new
military road met with two much older roads, one leading down through
Avonside, the other leading to Glen Livet.
Most of the houses here were built by successive generations of the Stuart family although the first house in the village to be constructed of stone did not appear until the 1950's. |
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