Claverhouse (also known as Barns of Claverhouse) is a residential area located on the northern outskirts of Dundee,

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with the city centre located 2 miles (3.2 km) from the area.

Overview

Claverhouse is primarily an affluent residential area and is one of the wealthier areas in Dundee alongside

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and the West End of Dundee. The area is surrounded by natural parkland,

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s and a

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and is a popular area for

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and

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as well. High end housing communities which feature houses and villas are located within the area. The

Dighty Burn The Dighty Burn, also known as Dighty Water or Dichty Water, is a burn or stream 20 kilometres (12 mi) in length that flows through the north and east of Dundee, Scotland. Course The burn forms to the west of Dundee as the Lundie Burn i ...

runs past through Claverhouse underneath a bridge from the west which continues to flow to the east. Located near to Claverhouse is Mains Castle an
Caird Park
as well as the A90 road northbound to

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through Forfar Road. Claverhouse is also the location of where the news and media company
Dundee Culture
is based.

History

John Graham of Claverhouse John Graham, 7th of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount Dundee (21 July 1648 – 27 July 1689) was a Scottish soldier and nobleman, a Tory and an Episcopalian. He was responsible for policing southwest Scotland during and after the religious unrest and r ...

(1648–1689), known to history as "Bonnie Dundee" or "Bluidy Clavers" by his supporters and detractors respectively, was the

laird Laird () is the owner of a large, long-established Scottish estate. In the traditional Scottish order of precedence, a laird ranked below a baron and above a gentleman. This rank was held only by those lairds holding official recognition in ...

of Claverhouse. The Graham family, including John Graham owned the area of Claverhouse in the 1600s. References to John Graham and his viscountcy were used for street names as part of the Claverhouse Braes community. The Claverhouse Bleachworks factory opened in the late 1770s and closed in the 1970s. Claverhouse Bleachfield had a chimney and a counting house which housed a bell and a clock tower. The bell has been removed although the clock tower and the chimney of the bleachwork factory still stand in Claverhouse. The nearby Trottick Ponds were used for the Claverhouse Bleachworks factory as a power source and for the mill buildings. Private residential communities such as Claverhouse Braes, Claver Mill, Emmock Woods and Dalclaverhouse were constructed in Claverhouse in from the late 1990s to the early 2020s.

Governance

Claverhouse is in the North East ward of

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, it is represented by Steven Rome and Willie Sawers of the Scottish National Party and Jax Finnegan of the Scottish Labour Party. The area is part of Dundee City West which is represented by

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in the Scottish Parliament, and in Dundee East which is represented by Stewart Hosie in the

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Transport

Public transport in the area is quite limited compared to other areas in the Dundee due to it being quite remote and small, however, busses do come to the area with links to the city centre via the 10, 18 and 236 and direct routes to

Kirriemuir Kirriemuir, sometimes called Kirrie or the ''Wee Red Toon'' ( gd, An Ceathramh Mòr; IPA: nˈkʰʲɛɾəvmoːɾ, is a burgh in Angus, Scotland. It reaches back to earliest recorded times, when it is thought to have been a major ecclesiastical ...

and

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via the 21D. The 14S and 17S routes, which are school bus routes for pupils at St. Paul's R.C. Academy, the closest school to the area, stops at Claverhouse.

Gallery

File:Claverhouse, Dundee - geograph.org.uk - 9818.jpg, Claverhouse pictured in 2005 File:Claverhouse pond - panoramio.jpg, Pond in Claverhouse

References

Areas of Dundee {{Dundee-geo-stub