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Glen Feshie (Gleann Feith Sithean),  is a glen in the Badenoch district of the Highland region of Scotland.

The path of the glen is traced by the river Feshie which flows first in a north-easterly direction as far as the watershed with the Geldie Burn and then turns sharply north-west and later north, running through mountainous terrain in its higher southern half down to the broader U-shaped glaciated valley of the lower northern half, eventually joining the River Spey close to Kincraig.

Glen Feshie forms part of an ancient route through the Grampian mountains that linked Badenoch in the north to Braemar and Blair Atholl via Glen Geldie in the south-east. On more than one occasion the prospect of the construction of a north-south road through the glen to Braemar has been considered, most recently in 1953. Today there are only two permanently occupied settlements south of Tolvah, but there is evidence of human activity over several hundred years in the archaeological remains of townships and shielings in several parts of the glen.

The artist Edwin Henry Landseer spent much time in the area between 1825 and 1853 and some of his most notable works are set in Glen Feshie. The paintings "Return from Deerstalking" (1827, from the collection of the Duke of Northumberland) and "Waiting for the Deer to Rise" depict Charles Mackintosh and Malcolm Clark who were both gamekeepers in Glen Feshie at the time.

Landseer was known to have had a romantic attachment to Georgina the Duchess of Bedford, wife of the 6th Duke of Bedford, and was a frequent guest at their 'huts' that Georgina constructed in the glen.