Farms (open to visitors) · Scottish Highlands
Howietoun Fish Farm
Howietoun Fish Farm in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.
Callum Black — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 2 h–4 h
- Family-friendly
About
Howietoun Fish Farm is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Howietoun Fishery is a fish farm in Stirlingshire. It was created by Sir James Ramsay Gibson Maitland as a Victorian fishery that specialised in the study of trout and salmon farming and supplied live ova and fish on a worldwide scale.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
Architecture
The site is split into two with the hatchery being a few miles from the fishery. The site consists of a barn, two semi-detached cottages, a feed-store, hatching house, dispatching house and the summer-house (B-listed building).
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 56.0728, -3.9533
- District
- Stirling
- Postcode
- FK7 9QH
- Parliamentary constituency
- Stirling and Strathallan
- Established
- 1873
Sources
- wikidata: Q17568239 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Howietoun Fishery (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Howietoun Fish Farm?
- Howietoun Fish Farm is in the Scottish Highlands, United Kingdom (postcode FK7 9QH).
- When was Howietoun Fish Farm built?
- Built or established in 1873.
- Who owns Howietoun Fish Farm?
- Howietoun Fish Farm is owned by University of Stirling.
- How do I get to Howietoun Fish Farm?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode FK7 9QH. It sits within the Stirling and Strathallan parliamentary constituency.