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Location Information:
Gleneagles is a glen which connects
with Glen Devon to form a pass
through the Ochil Hills of Perth and
Kinross in Scotland. The name's
origin has nothing to do with
eagles, and is a corruption of
eaglais or ecclesia, meaning church,
and refers to the chapel and well of
Saint Mungo, which was restored as a
memorial to the Haldane family which
owns the Gleneagles estate.
Gleneagles House at the northern
entrance to Gleneagles comprises a
1750 extension to an earlier
17th-century building that is
approached by an avenue of lime
trees planted to commemorate the
Battle of Camperdown. Little remains
of Gleneagles Castle, the early
16th-century tower house of the
Haldanes.
The
Caledonian Railway Company used its
name for the Gleneagles Hotel and
golf course they built some distance
from the glen at the edge of
Auchterarder. The hotel hosted the
controversial G8 conference in July
2005, which earned the area the
description of "the most fortified
golf course in Scotland" due to
extensive security.
Gleneagles railway station, formerly
known as Crieff Junction, is on the
line between Perth and Stirling. As
its name suggests, this was the
junction for the Crieff Junction
Railway, which closed in 1964.
Johnnie Walker sponsor the Johnnie
Walker Championship at Gleneagles
which is a European Tour event
played in Scotland. Before the
present tournament was introduced
there was an entirely separate
tournament of the same name in
Australia, and the two actually
overlapped by a year or two, but at
the point the current event was
called the Johnnie Walker Asian
Classic.
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