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Longforgan
Longforgan is a village and parish in the Carse of Gowrie, in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It lies west of Dundee on the main A90 road. History A record survives of Sir Patrick Gray, as Baron of Longforgan, holding a baronial court here in 1385 on the Longforgan or Hund Hill; a moot hill. The officials present were the same as those at of the sovereign's courts. The village was created a burgh of barony in 1672. Castle Huntly, established in the 14th century and developed in the 17th and 18th centuries, is located south-west of the village. It is now an open prison. A woodland, Huntly Woods, is situated away from the village. There is evidence that a Roman Camp was built in Huntly woods. St Modwenna, who died in 521, is said to have founded a church at Longforgan. The present church, which probably stands on its site, was practically rebuilt in 1794, but during renovation about 1900, 15th century mouldings were discovered. A probably 13th century cross and a tombstone dated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longforgan Mercat Cross
Longforgan is a village and parish in the Carse of Gowrie, in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It lies west of Dundee on the main A90 road. History A record survives of Sir Patrick Gray, as Baron of Longforgan, holding a baronial court here in 1385 on the Longforgan or Hund Hill; a moot hill. The officials present were the same as those at of the sovereign's courts. The village was created a burgh of barony in 1672. Castle Huntly, established in the 14th century and developed in the 17th and 18th centuries, is located south-west of the village. It is now an open prison. A woodland, Huntly Woods, is situated away from the village. There is evidence that a Roman Camp was built in Huntly woods. St Modwenna, who died in 521, is said to have founded a church at Longforgan. The present church, which probably stands on its site, was practically rebuilt in 1794, but during renovation about 1900, 15th century mouldings were discovered. A probably 13th century cross and a tombstone dated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longforgan Railway Station
Longforgan railway station served the village of Longforgan, Perth and Kinross, Scotland from 1847 to 1956 on the Dundee and Perth Railway. History The station opened on 24 May 1847 by the Dundee and Perth Railway. The goods yard was to the north. The station closed to both passengers and goods traffic on 11 June 1956. The signal box and the station building remain and have been a listed building since 1993. References External links Disused railway stations in Perth and Kinross Former Caledonian Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1847 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1956 1847 establishments in Scotland 1956 disestablishments in Scotland Listed railway stations in Scotland Category C listed buildings in Perth and Kinross {{PerthKinross-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Thoms
Alexander Thoms FRSE (1837–1925) was a 19th/20th century Scottish mineralogist. His collection of rocks and minerals form a core part of the collection within the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery in Glasgow. Life He was born in Longforgan in Perthshire on 9 November 1837, the son of John Thoms of Clepington, and his wife, Barbara Wise. Around 1854 he went to Bengal in India and spent around three decades there managing tea plantations. He returned permanently to Scotland in 1884 and settled in St Andrews where he already had family links. He was a church elder in St Leonard's Church and served as Kirk Treasurer from 1889 to 1921. In 1905 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Ben Peach, John Horne, Robert Kidston and James Currie. He died on Boxing Day, 26 December 1925, at his home on Playfair Terrace in St Andrews. Publications *''The Mineralogy of Scotland'' Family He married three times. Firstly in 1879 to Mary Watson Wemys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carse Of Gowrie
The Carse of Gowrie is a stretch of low-lying country in the southern part of Gowrie, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It stretches for about along the north shore of the Firth of Tay between Perth and Dundee. The area offers high-quality agricultural land and is well known as a major area for strawberry, raspberry and general fruit growing. Fruit is easy to cultivate in the area because of its southerly aspect and low rainfall. It has been suggested that monks brought new varieties of apples and pears to the area in the Middle Ages and there may have been vineyards growing on slopes near the River Tay. Landscape The landscape of the Carse was created by glacial process and for part of the Mesolithic period the Carse of Gowrie was under water. Fertile fluvioglacial soils made the Carse a good place to settle and farm. Groome's Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland, dating from the mid-1880s, describes Carse of Gowrie as having consisted of a series of isolated mounds, known as inches, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingoodie
Kingoodie ( gd, Ceann Gaothach or gd, Ceann na Gaoithe "windy head(land)") is a hamlet about south west of Dundee, but in the region of Perth and Kinross, Scotland. The shore is easily accessible and close to the Firth of Tay. Quarries close to Kingoodie supplied the town with building stone for a number of centuries. This stone was important for the building of sea walls to protect the town from the tide and the harbour works. Stone for the tennis court at Falkland Palace was quarried near Kingoodie in 1540 and shipped to Lindores, north of the palace on the River Tay. The population is approximately 60 people (as of 2009). There is a headland jutting out to sea in front of the village. This is mentioned in Groome's ''Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland Ordnance may refer to: Military and defense *Materiel in military logistics, including weapons, ammunition, vehicles, and maintenance tools and equipment. **The military branch responsible for supplying and developing these items, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apollonia Kickius
Apollonia Kickius (1669 -1695) (or Kickieus or Kickeus) was a painter working in Scotland in the 17th century. She is one of only three women painters known to be working in Scotland prior to 1700 and is the sole woman in Scotland documented as working in the building trades from the 17th to mid 19th century. Early life Apollonia Kickius may have been born in London, England but likely lived in Scotland from the age of 8. Her parents were the artist Edward Kickius (thought to be German or Dutch and also known as Everhardus Kickius or Everard Kick) and Apollonia Hardij of The Hague. Edward Kickius was working in London in the late 1660s and in Scotland from 1677. The family lived in the Canongate, Edinburgh. Apollonia Kickius seems to have stayed in Scotland while her father left Edinburgh to return to England by 1685 and her mother joined him in London in 1687. Career In 1685 Kickius signed a receipt for money owing to her father for his painting work at Edinburgh Castle. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosamunde Pilcher
Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE (''née'' Scott; 22 September 1924 – 6 February 2019) was a British writer of romance novels, mainstream fiction, and short stories, from 1949 until her retirement in 2000. Her novels sold over 60 million copies worldwide. Early in her career she was also published under the pen name Jane Fraser. In 2001, she received the Corine Literature Prize's Weltbild Readers' Prize for ''Winter Solstice''. Personal life She was born Rosamunde Scott on 22 September 1924 in Lelant, Cornwall. Her parents were Helen (''née'' Harvey) and Charles Scott, a British civil servant. Just before her birth her father was posted in Burma, while her mother remained in England. She attended the School of St. Clare in Penzance and Howell's School Llandaff before going on to Miss Kerr-Sanders' Secretarial College. She began writing when she was seven, and published her first short story when she was 15. From 1943 until 1946, Pilcher served with the Women's Royal Naval Service. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knocking Stone
Knocking stones, Knockin'-stanes or Clach chnotainn in Scottish Gaelic were exposed bedrock stone or boulders with a pot-shaped concavity cut into them used for husking barley and other cereals before the introduction of other methods of milling grain or when only small quantities of cereal were processed. History Knocking or husking stones were generally replaced by quern stones which in turn were eventually replaced by water and wind powered mills. They were once used by every farming household and abandoned examples are still to be found in Ireland, the Highlands and the Western Isles. In 1635 however the ''Chronicle of Perth'' records how they still had small scale use – "''Thair wes great skairstie of wictuall, and elding mylnis gaed not, and thair wes no passage nor travelling to bring ony in''. ''At that tyme aill wes waid skant''. ''They knokit malt in knoking stones.''" Knocking stones remained in use until the end of the nineteenth century in the Highlands and islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perth And Kinross
Perth and Kinross ( sco, Pairth an Kinross; gd, Peairt agus Ceann Rois) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland and a Lieutenancy Area. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Clackmannanshire, Dundee, Fife, Highland and Stirling council areas. Perth is the administrative centre. With the exception of a large area of south-western Perthshire, the council area mostly corresponds to the historic counties of Perthshire and Kinross-shire. Perthshire and Kinross-shire shared a joint county council from 1929 until 1975. The area formed a single local government district in 1975 within the Tayside region under the '' Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973'', and was then reconstituted as a unitary authority (with a minor boundary adjustment) in 1996 by the '' Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994''. Geographically the area is split by the Highland Boundary Fault into a more mountainous northern part and a flatter southern part. The northern area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open Prison
An open prison (open jail) is any jail in which the prisoners are trusted to complete sentences with minimal supervision and perimeter security and are often not locked up in their prison cells. Prisoners may be permitted to take up employment while serving their sentence. In the UK, open prisons are often part of a rehabilitation plan for prisoners moved from closed prisons. They may be designated "training prisons" and are only for prisoners considered a low risk to the public. The idea of an open prison is often criticised by members of the public and politicians, despite its success towards rehabilitation compared to older more draconian methods. Prisoners in open jails do not have complete freedom and are only allowed to leave the premises for specific purposes, such as going to an outside job. In Ireland, there has been controversy about the level of escape from open prisons, attributed to the use of the prison by the Irish Prison Service to transfer prisoners unsuitable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moot Hill
A moot hill or ''mons placiti'' (statute hill) is a hill or mound historically used as an assembly or meeting place, as a moot hall is a meeting or assembly building, also traditionally to decide local issues. In early medieval Britain, such hills were used for "moots", meetings of local people to settle local business. Among other things, proclamations might be read; decisions might be taken; court cases might be settled at a moot. Although some moot hills were naturally occurring features or had been created long before as burial mounds, others were purpose-built. Etymology Although the word ''moot'' or ''mote'' is of Old English origin, deriving from the verb ''to meet'', it has come to have a wider meaning throughout the United Kingdom; initially referring to any popular gathering. In England, the word '' folkmoot'' in time came to mean a more specific local assembly with recognised legal rights. In Scotland the term is used in the literature for want of any other single ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle Huntly
Castle Huntly is a castle in Scotland, now used as a prison under the name '' HMP Castle Huntly''. It is located approximately west of Dundee in the Carse of Gowrie, Perth and Kinross, close to the shore of the Firth of Tay, and can be seen from the main road linking Dundee and Perth. The castle sits on top of a rocky outcrop surrounded by what is now farmland. In ancient times this land was marshy wilderness and the decision to locate the castle on the rock may have been taken with a view to the castle's defensive position in mind. The Governor is Paula Arnold. History Lord Gray of Fowlis built Castle Huntly around 1452, under licence from James II of Scotland. The castle changed hands in 1614, when the then Earl of Strathmore acquired it and changed its name to Castle Lyon. Two women — Apollonia Kickius and a Mrs Morris — worked as painters at Castle Lyon in the late 17th century. In the 1770s, the widow of the 7th Earl of Strathmore sold the castle to George Pat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
