St Martins, Perth and Kinross
St Martins is a parish in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, just north of the Sidlaws range of hills, about north-northeast of Perth and northwest of Balbeggie. The parish is named for Martin of Tours, of Lower Hungary.
Perth Airport, at Scone, is to the south, and the parish is beneath the climb-out of aircraft departing from runway 03.
The parish is mentioned in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, in a scene in which the title character meets with two witches on a moor in the parish. The location is marked by today's Witches' Stone.
Notable people
- William Davidson Bissett, recipient of the Victoria Cross
- William Macdonald Mackenzie, architect, was born in the parish
- John Simpson, recipient of the Victoria Cross