Birnam, Perth and Kinross
Birnam is a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It is located 12 miles (19 km) north of Perth on the A9 road, the main tourist route through Perthshire, in an area of Scotland marketed as Big Tree Country. The village originated from the Victorian era with the coming of the railway in 1856, although the place and name is well known because William Shakespeare mentioned Birnam Wood in Macbeth:MACBETH: Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane/ I cannot taint with fear.
Dunkeld and Birnam Railway Station
Glen Birnam by John Everett Millais, 1890
Birnam Wood in 1800
Main Street, Birnam
The A9 is a major road in Scotland running from the Falkirk council area in central Scotland to Scrabster Harbour, Thurso in the far north, via Stirling, Bridge of Allan, Perth and Inverness. At 273 mi (439 km), it is the longest road in Scotland and the fifth-longest A-road in the United Kingdom. Historically it was the main road between Edinburgh and John o' Groats, and has been called the spine of Scotland. It is one of the three major north–south trunk routes linking the Central Belt to the Highlands - the others being the A82 and the A90.
A section of one of General Wade's old military roads, south of Inverness.
Thomas Telford's Dunkeld Bridge crossing the River Tay
The Kessock Bridge, completed in 1982, which crosses the Moray Firth and shortened the route north out of Inverness by 14 miles (23 km)
The average speed cameras which became operational on the A9 in late 2014
