Blair Atholl Watermill & Tea Room 2025
Perthshire
Atholl Country Life Museum 2025
Learn about the agriculture of the area, with displays relating to aspects of rural farming life, as well as the importance of horses as a means of transport and the early forerunner of today’s machines. The railway forms an important part of Blair Atholl’s history and evolution since the station and Highland Line arrived in the mid 1860s.
Contacts
Address: Old School Blair Atholl Perthshire PH18 5SP
- Telephone: 01796 481 349
- Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
- Website: View website
Open Days & Times
Good Fri-Easter Mon; May Sat-Sun. Daily Jun 1330-1700. Daily Jul-Aug from 1000. Daily Sep-Oct 1200-1600. Visit website or facebook for more details.
Travel
- By Rail: Blair Atholl / 400 yards
Facilities
- Parking
- Souvenir Shop
- Full disabled access
Rail was a lifeline for freight deliveries and transporting visitors and holidaymakers to the village. There is a display of railway pictures and memorabilia in the museum.
The Trinafour Post Office, is in an annexe at the back of the museum, and was the actual former post office from Trinafour, a village some eight miles to the west of Blair Atholl. It was transplanted to the museum, and is exactly as it would have been as far back as the early 20th century. It contains a huge number of original artefacts that would have been found when it formed a vital part of the local community, including the original telephone booth with its telephone, adverts, mail bags, letter pigeon holes, the many accoutrements of the local postmaster and the impressive big old counter.
