Auchterarder named as one of Scotland’s best places to live

Auchterarder has been named one of the 10 best places to live in Scotland.

The Perthshire village was placed alongside affluent Jordanhill in Glasgow and Broadford on the Isle of Skye in The Sunday Times Best Places to Live guide.

The village is home to Caledonian Crescent, the estate dubbed the most expensive street in Scotland. The average price for a house on the street, which backs on to Gleneagles, is £1.5 million.

The guide, which will be published this weekend, took into account a wide range of elements, including transport links, quality of schools, natural beauty, low crime rate, property prices, cultural life and unemployment figures.

The guide is edited by the paper’s associate editor and regular broadcaster Eleanor Mills.

As author of the Beyond the Brochure property column she has visited every corner of the country to assess the pros and cons of relocating and so was well qualified to compile the list of residential hot spots.

She said: “Scampering around Britain for my column, I find there are particular bits of our crowded island which always retain a particular attraction for people.”