Madderty is a village in

Strathearn Strathearn or Strath Earn (), also the Earn Valley, is the strath of the River Earn, which flows from Loch Earn to meet the River Tay in the east of Scotland. The area covers the stretch of the river, containing a number of settlements in ...

Perth and Kinross Perth and Kinross (; ) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area. It is bordered by Highland (council area), Highland and Aberdeenshire to the north, Angus, Scotland, Angus, Dundee, and F ...

. It lies on the former railway line connecting

Perth Perth () is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth . The ...

and

Crieff Crieff (; , meaning "tree") is a Scottish market town in Perth and Kinross on the A85 road between Perth, Scotland, Perth and Crianlarich, and the A822 road, A822 between Greenloaning and Aberfeldy, Scotland, Aberfeldy. The A822 road, A822 joins ...

. The

Gask Ridge The Gask Ridge is the modern name given to an early series of Castra, fortifications, built by the Roman Empire, Romans in Scotland, close to the Highland Boundary Fault, Highland Line. Modern excavation and interpretation has been pioneered by ...

and its

Roman road Roman roads ( ; singular: ; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and the Roman Em ...

lie to the south and the remains of

Inchaffray Abbey Inchaffray Abbey was situated by the village of Madderty, midway between Perth and Crieff in Strathearn, Scotland. The only traces now visible are an earth mound and some walls on rising ground which once (before drainage) formed an island whe ...

to the north. Madderty is mentioned in a charter of about 1200, at which time there was a church dedicated to Saint

Ethernan Ethernan (or Ithernan, Etharnan, Itarnan) was a 7th century Scottish martyr and saint. The focus of his cultus was the Isle of May. Life and death Almost nothing is known about Ethernan's life. It has been speculated that he may have been a mon ...

in the village. The prominent agricultural zoologist Dr

Daniel MacLagan Dr Daniel Stewart MacLagan FRSE FRES (3 June 1904 – 3 February 1991) was a 20th-century Scottish agricultural zoologist and entomologist. He was popularly known as Dan MacLagan. Life He was born on 3 June 1904 at Williamstone Farm in Madderty ...

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and Literature, letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". ...

(1904-1991) was born on Williamstone Farm here and later ran the farm.https://www.rse.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/obits_alpha/maclagan_daniel.pdf

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Gazetteer for Scotland
Villages in Perth and Kinross {{PerthKinross-geo-stub