Crossroads and Characters

69. IN SIGHT OF CRAIG ROSSIE.

The Second World War brought an end to the Dunning Golf Club on Pitcairns farm above the village, and the club took several years to re-form. In 1946, the twelfth Lord Rollo donated Rollo Park as a recreational area for all sports in the village. He died soon after and there were further delays and much work before his son Eric, the Thirteenth Lord Rollo, officially opened Dunning's nine-hole course in 1954. Among its amenities is a magnificent view of the Ochil Hills including Rossie Law, at the summit of which there is an excavated Iron Age fort. And in this picture can be seen Craig Rossie, the distinctive high humped hill the pinnacle of which marks the boundary between Dunning and Auchterarder parishes. Naturally, like the village,the rugged Dunning side of Craig Rossie is the least visited.