Gartmore, which means 'Large Cornfield', is a charming Conservation village with a real sense of community just one mile off the main road from Glasgow to Aberfoyle and is a short distance from Stirling and Glasgow. Gartmore has its own Community Village Shop & Post Office, well used village hall and Primary School. There is also the Black Bull Hotel and Public. Gartmore also boasts its own Gartmore Amateur Dramatic Group.

Gartmore House was built in the eighteenth century and was the home of Graham of Gartmore and his family, descendants of the royal household of King Robert II.

The last owner of the Gartmore Estate was the noted writer, politician and first President of the Scottish National Party, Robert Bontine Cunningham Graham (1852-1936). To the north of the village you can find the ruins of Gartmore House's predecessor, Gartartan Castle, a 16th-century Z-plan tower.

Gartmore is set in a picturesque setting on the edge of the magnificent Queen Elizabeth Forest Park and is great as a base or stop over for your Trossachs break. Nearby is the Forestry Commissions Cobleland Camp Site and the Ward Toll Nursery with its conservatory restaurant.

But there is a curious nature to Gartmore village, a community which has no more then 200 homes and 400 residents, it lies at a rather close proximity to the highland boundary fault. 2004 saw the last written account of an earthquake taking place recording 4.5 on the Richter scale. No-one was affected, but it is certainly a curious position for a village. The highland boundary fault is a geological fault which separates the two greatly diverse physiographic regions which are: the Highlands and the Midland Valley.

Gartmore Map