HUNTINGTOWER AND RUTHVENFIELD, a vil lage of Perthshire, Scotland, on the Almond, 3 m. N.W. of Perth. Huntingtower (originally Ruthven) Castle, was the scene of the Raid of Ruthven, when the Protestants under William, 4th Lord Ruthven kidnapped the boy-king James VI., in 1582. The earl's sons were killed in the Gowrie conspiracy (1600), after which the Scots parliament ordered the barony to be known in future as Huntingtower. A bleaching field was formed in 1774 the water of the neighbourhood being especially suitable for bleachings.