The town acted as a gathering point or tryst for the Michaelmas cattle sale held each year and the surrounding fields and hillsides were black with the tens of thousands of cattle-some from as far away as Caithness and the Outer Hebrides ( for comparison, in 1790 the population of Crieff was about 1, 200 which led to a ratio of tens cows per person, similar to the sheep / human ratio in New Zealand ).

During the October Tryst ( as the cattle gathering was known ), Crieff was the prototype ' wild west ' town.

Crieff was well known for its pro-government sympathies-it was reported that of the total population only two people supported the Old Pretender ( clearly an exaggeration but proof of the extent of feeling ).

' Rob Roy's outlaw son ' was pursued through the streets of Crieff by soldiers and killed.

By day Crieff was full of soldiers and government spies.

Crieff was once served by Crieff railway station.

The station was opened in 1856 by the Crieff Junction Railway, but was closed in 1964 by British Railways as part of the Beeching Axe.

* Neil Paterson, Oscar-winning screenwriter, was a resident of Crieff until his death in 1995

This line was added to by the Crieff & Methven Railway to reach Perth from the east.

On its creation Strathtay was also the largest operator in Perth, Crieff and Pitlochry, but depots in those towns have closed in 1993 and operations were scaled back, ironically due to intensive ' Stagecoach ' competition at the time.

It reunited with the former parish church, St Andrew's in Crieff Road, built in 1884, and for a while was used as halls for the united congregation, until 2005 when the Crieff Road building was closed and a modern interior and suite of halls was added to the Taybridge Road building, providing excellent facilities for adult and youth work.

Lawson was born in Crieff, Perthshire, the son of Phyllis Neno ( née Stamper ), a sweet seller and Laurence Lawson, a watchmaker.

Lawson was educated at Crieff Primary School ( then called Crieff Public School ).

* The town of Crieff, Scotland, is burned to the ground by Jacobites returning from the Battle of Sheriffmuir.

For a number of centuries Highlanders came south to Crieff to sell their black cattle whose meat and hides were avidly sought by the growing urban populations in Lowland Scotland and the north of England.

Crieff still functions as a tourist centre, and the large villas stand as testaments to its use by wealthy city-dwellers.

The Comrie, St Fillans & Lochearnhead Railway connection ( following the take-over by the Caledonian Railway ) from Crieff along Loch Earn reached Balquhidder Junction on 1 May 1905 with the Kendrum Viaduct over Glen Ogle at Lochearnhead.

Much of the land around Comrie was owned by the Drummond family, Earls of Perth, latterly Earls of Ancaster, whose main seat was Drummond Castle, south of Crieff.

The estate, owned by the Moray family since the 13th century, is located 4 miles east of Crieff.

Banff, Bathgate, Blairgowrie, Bo ' ness, Campbeltown, Carnoustie, Coatbridge, Craigmarloch, Crieff, Cumbernauld, Dalgety Bay, Dalkeith, Dingwall, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee ( two ), Dunfermline, Edinburgh ( two ), Elgin, Forfar, Forres, Fort William, Galloway, Govan ( Paisley Road West ), Grangemouth, Greenock, Haddington, Helensburgh, Inverness, Inverurie, Keith, Kilmarnock, Kirkcaldy, Kirkintilloch, Kirriemuir, Lanark, Linlithgow, Milngavie, Monifieth, Montrose, Oban, Perth ( two ; one on Victoria Street in the city centre and one on the Crieff Road ), Rosyth, St Andrews, Stranraer, and Wishaw.

A cheese of 7, 000 lb ( 3, 175 kg ) was produced in Ingersoll, Ontario, in 1866 and exhibited in New York and Britain ; it was immortalised in the poem " Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weighing over 7, 000 Pounds " by James McIntyre, a Canadian poet.

This aspect of the legend was immortalised by Goethe in his poem Der Erlkönig, later set to music by Schubert.

It was immortalised both on record and on a film that played in US theatres for a week in 1964 as well as being the subject of books written by cast members William Redfield and Richard L. Sterne.

The most important of these conquests for French history was the Norman Conquest of England by William the Conqueror, following the Battle of Hastings and immortalised in the Bayeux Tapestry, because it linked England to France through Normandy.

The diaspora to America was immortalised in the words of many songs including the famous Irish ballad, " The Green Fields of America ":

Although the evidence for the story is doubtful, it was immortalised at the school with a plaque unveiled in 1895.

Cranmer's death was immortalised in John Foxe's Book of Martyrs and his legacy lives on within the Church of England through the Book of Common Prayer and the Thirty-Nine Articles, an Anglican statement of faith derived from his work.

A gifted musician, his mother, Elizabeth Kennedy-Laurie Dickson, was related to the Lauries of Maxwellton ( immortalised in the ballad Annie Laurie ) and connected with the Duke of Atholl and the Royal Stuarts.

In other matches that season, Gloucestershire made its first visit to Old Trafford Cricket Ground in July to play Lancashire and this was the match immortalised by Francis Thompson in his idyllic poem At Lord's.

The performance was immortalised both on record and on a film that played in US theatres for a week in 1964 as well as being the subject of books written by cast members William Redfield and Richard L. Sterne.

Appointed in 1828 he executed many reforms to the school curriculum and administration and was immortalised in Thomas Hughes ' book Tom Brown's School Days.

The government army was led by General John Cope, and their disastrous defence against the Jacobites is immortalised in the song ' Johnnie Cope '.

This bridge was immortalised by Pierre Boulle in his book and the film based on it, The Bridge on the River Kwai.

Another legendary Richard was Maurice Evans, who first played the role at the Old Vic in 1934 and then created a sensation in his 1937 Broadway performance, revived it in New York in 1940 and then immortalised it on television for the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1954.

The sculptor also was reputed to have immortalised his eromenos, Pantarkes, by carving " Pantarkes kalos " into the god's little finger, and placing a relief of the boy crowning himself at the feet of the statue.

This shameless and scandalous boy died in Egypt when the court was there ; and forthwith his Imperial Majesty issued out an order or edict strictly requiring and commanding his loving subjects to acknowledge his departed page a deity and to pay him his quota of divine reverences and honours as such: a resolution and act which did more effectually publish and testify to the world how entirely the Emperor's unnatural passion survived the foul object of it ; and how much his master was devoted to his memory, than it recorded his own crime and condemnation, immortalised his infamy and shame, and bequeathed to mankind a lasting and notorious specimen of the true origin and extraction of all idolatry.

Its renown was such, that it was immortalised in a lyric epigram:

The subject of paintings by François Clouet as well other anonymous painters, Diane was also immortalised in a statue by Jean Goujon.

It was immortalised by Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist, in which the principal villain Bill Sikes meets a nasty end in the mud of ' Folly Ditch ' an area which was known as Hickmans Folly — the scene of an attack by Spring Heeled Jack in 1845 — surrounding Jacob's Island.

" In April 2012, Harold was immortalised in wax for the Madame Tussauds attraction in Darling Harbour.

The song that has immortalised him, La Marseillaise, was composed at Strasbourg, where Rouget de Lisle was quartered in April 1792.