Auchterarder, a Perthshire village, 14½ miles SW. of Perth by rail. Population, 2524, largely employed in the woollen manufacture. The popular opposition to the presentee to the church of Auchterarder originated (1834) the struggle which ended in the secession from the Church of Scotland and the formation of the Free Church in 1843.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 564
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