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| country                           = Scotland
| official_name                     = Huntingtower and Ruthvenfield
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| unitary_scotland                  = [[Perth and Kinross]]
| lieutenancy_scotland              = [[Perth and Kinross]]
| post_town                         = PERTH
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| dial_code                         = 01738
| constituency_westminster          = [[Ochil and South Perthshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Ochil and South Perthshire]]
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| constituency_scottish_parliament  = [[Perth (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Perth]]
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[[File:Huntingtower clock tower.jpg|thumb|left|The clock tower at Huntingtower]]
'''Huntingtower and Ruthvenfield''' is a village in [[Perthshire]], [[Scotland]], on the [[River Almond, Perth and Kinross|River Almond]], {{convert|3|mi|km|round=5|abbr=off}} northwest of [[Perth, Scotland|Perth]].

Bleaching, the chief industry, dated from 1774, when the [[Bleachfield|bleaching-field]] was formed. By means of an old [[Roman aqueduct|aqueduct]], said to have been built by the Romans, it was provided with water from the River Almond, the properties of which rendered it especially suited for bleaching.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Huntingtower and Ruthvenfield|volume=13|page=954}}</ref> Bleaching (by chemicals under cover, not with bleach fields) continued Huntingtower until 1981.

[[Huntingtower Castle]], a once formidable structure, was the scene of the [[Raid of Ruthven]] (pron. Rivven), when the [[Protestant]] lords, headed by [[William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie|William, 4th Lord Ruthven and 1st Earl of Gowrie]] (c.1541–1584), kidnapped the [[James VI of Scotland|boy-king James VI]], on 22 August 1582. The earl's sons were slain in the attempt (known as the Gowrie conspiracy) to capture James VI (1600), consequent on which the Scots parliament ordered the name of Ruthven to be abolished, and the barony to be known in future as Huntingtower.<ref name="EB1911"/> The Ruthven name and reputation was re-established in 1651, by Sir Thomas Ruthven, for service to the Crown.

The source of the {{cvt|4.5|mi}}-long [[Perth Lade]] is just west of the village, at Low's Work weir on the [[River Almond, Perth and Kinross|River Almond]].

==Notable persons==
[[George Turnbull (civil engineer)|George Turnbull]] was brought up in Huntingtower. He was the Chief Engineer building the first major [[East Indian Railway|Indian railway]] in the 1850s.<ref>Diaries of George Turnbull (Chief Engineer, [[East Indian Railway Company]]) held at the [[Centre of South Asian Studies]] at [[Cambridge University]], England</ref><ref>''George Turnbull, C.E.''  437-page memoirs published privately 1893, scanned copy held in the British Library, London on compact disk since 2007</ref>     
 
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