Fern-Tower, a mansion in Crieff parish, Perthshire, on the SE slope of the pine-clad Knock (911 feet), 2 miles NNE of Crieff town. In 1810 Sir David Baird (1757-1829), the hero of Seringapatam, married Miss Ann Campbell Preston of Valleyfield and Fern-Tower; and it was at Fern-Tower that he spent his last years and died. His widow survived him till 1847; and now the estate belongs to Lord Abercromby, who holds in Stirlingshire 10, 407 acres, valued at £6007 per annum. See Tom-a-Chastel, Airthrey, and Tullibody.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)