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Dunkeld as well as Birnam is a neighborhood council area as well as UK Census region in Perth and also Kinross, Scotland, containing two villages on opposite banks of the River Tay: the historical cathedral “city” of Dunkeld on the north bank, as well as Birnam on the south financial institution. The two were first connected by a bridge built in 1809 by Thomas Telford. Both locations lie close to the Highland Boundary Fault, which marks the geological limit between the Highlands and the Lowlands, and are frequently referred to as the “Entrance to the Highlands” due to their setting on the main road as well as rail lines north. Dunkeld as well as Birnam share a railway station, Dunkeld & Birnam, on the Highland Main Line, and also have to do with 24 kilometres (15 mi) north of Perth on what is now the A9 road. Dunkeld pushes the eastern side of the A9 on the north financial institution of the River Tay. The town is the place of Dunkeld Cathedral. Around 20 of the houses within Dunkeld have actually been restored by the National Trust for Scotland, who run a store within the town. The Hermitage, on the western side of the A9, is a countryside residential or commercial property that is likewise a National Trust for Scotland site. Birnam exists opposite Dunkeld, on the south financial institution of the Tay, to which it is linked by the Telford bridge. It is the area of the Birnam Oak, thought to the only staying tree from the Birnam Wood called in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The Highland games held at Birnam are the area of the World Haggis Eating Championships.