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Dunkeld and also Birnam is a community council area and UK Census region in Perth as well as Kinross, Scotland, including two villages on contrary banks of the River Tay: the historical cathedral “city” of Dunkeld on the north bank, and Birnam on the south bank. Both were first linked by a bridge built in 1809 by Thomas Telford. The two locations lie close to the Highland Boundary Fault, which marks the geological limit between the Highlands and also the Lowlands, and are often described as the “Entrance to the Highlands” due to their placement on the main road and railway north. Dunkeld and also Birnam share a train station, Dunkeld & Birnam, on the Highland Main Line, and are about 24 kilometres (15 mi) north of Perth on what is currently the A9 road. Dunkeld rests on the eastern side of the A9 on the north bank of the River Tay. The community is the location of Dunkeld Cathedral. Around 20 of the houses within Dunkeld have been recovered by the National Trust for Scotland, who run a shop within the town. The Hermitage, on the western side of the A9, is a countryside home that is also a National Trust for Scotland site. Birnam lies contrary Dunkeld, on the south bank of the Tay, to which it is connected by the Telford bridge. It is the location of the Birnam Oak, believed to the only remaining tree from the Birnam Wood named in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The Highland video games held at Birnam are the location of the World Haggis Eating Championships.