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Boat of Garten is also known informally as "Osprey village", due to itsthe significant population of [[Osprey]]s.<ref name="ElseBerry2005" /> in the area.

==Geography and Transportation==

The area between Boat of Garten and Loch Garten is within the [[Abernethy Forest]] [[National Nature Reserve]],<ref name="Castle2010">{{cite book|last=Castle|first=Alan|title=Speyside Way|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hv2UVb2LOA4C&pg=PA108|access-date=5 March 2011|year=2010|publisher=Cicerone Press Limited|isbn=978-1-85284-606-0|pages=108–}}</ref> Boat of Garten being on the forest fringe.<ref name="CampbellSatterly1999">{{cite book|last1=Campbell|first1=Malcolm|author-link1=Malcolm Campbell|last2=Satterly|first2=Glynn|title=The Scottish Golf Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l-IUIch4FLIC&pg=PA147|access-date=5 March 2011|date=1 October 1999|publisher=Sports Publishing LLC|isbn=978-1-58382-053-7|pages=147–}}</ref>

St Columba's Church was built in the summer of 1900, at a cost of £820, and the church hall was added in 1934.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boatofgarten.com/community/stcolumbas.php|title=St Columbas|publisher=Boat of Garten.com|access-date=5 March 2011}}</ref>

The village is also renowned for the nearby [[Royal Society for the Protection of Birds|RSPB]] reserve at [[Loch Garten Osprey Centre|Loch Garten]],<ref name="Murphy2001">{{cite book|last=Murphy|first=Alan|title=Scotland Highlands & Islands handbook: the travel guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ks6lKODLoMC&pg=PA189|access-date=5 March 2011|date=9 September 2001|publisher=Footprint Travel Guides|isbn=978-1-900949-94-1|page=189}}</ref> well known for ospreys. It is approximately {{convert|1|mi}} to the east.<ref name="ForganGonzalez2010">{{cite book|last1=Forgan|first1=Duncan|last2=Gonzalez|first2=Michael|last3=Main|first3=Shona|title=Fodor's Scotland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W_VEu7tCvBsC&pg=PA364|access-date=5 March 2011|date=6 April 2010|publisher=Random House Digital, Inc.|isbn=978-1-4000-0432-4|pages=364–}}</ref>

The remains of a medieval [[Mottemotte-and-bailey castle]] known as [[Tom Pitlac]] (or the hill of Bigla or Matilda) is located to the east of Boat ofthe Gartenvillage, adjacent to Drumuillie.<ref name="TomPitlacCanmore">{{Canmore |num=15397|desc=Tom Pitlac|access-date=8 September 2021}}</ref> The motteIt is a scheduled ancient monument, and is believed to date tofrom the 12th or 13th century, with ana historic link in the 15th century to Bigla, a daughter of Gilbert Cumin, Lord of Glenchearnach.<ref name="HESTomPitlac">{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM9110|desc=Tom Pitlac, Motte|access-date=30 August 2021}}</ref> Associated with the castle, to the south of Drumuillie was the Spey 'miracleMiracle Stone', a stone erected in 1865 thatwhich commemorated a local legend in which the Spey river waters weresupposedly divided to allow a funeral to proceed to nearby [[Duthil]].<ref name="SpeyStoneCanmore">{{Canmore |num=15392|desc=Spey, 'miracle Stone'|access-date=8 September 2021}}</ref><ref name="SpeystoneBBC">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radioscotland/2012/09/the-miracle-stone-of-the-spey.shtml| title=The Miracle Stone of the Spey |publisher=BBC Radio Scotland |access-date=8 September 2021}}</ref> The commemoration stone was said to have been erected followingas a result of the [[Disruption of 1843]]. The stoneIt was inscribed by one William Grant, and was erected in 1865 in memory of the wife of Patrick Grant. As But as it was associated with scandal, the district residents destroyed it and threw it into the river.<ref>Reid, p. 70</ref>