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Orwell parish church, Milnathort Parishes of Kinross-shire. Orwell is no. 2. Orwell is a parish in Kinross-shire, Scotland. It contains the market town of Milnathort, as well as the hamlet of Middleton. The name comes from the Gaelic iubhar coille meaning "yew wood". [1] The parish has an area of about 21 square miles (54 km 2). [2]
The Pre-Reformation church was a chapel served by Portmoak Priory and was first dedicated to St. Monan then to St. Stephen. The present Portmoak Parish Church building, built in 1832, is the third on the site. The church bell is dated 1642. The surrounding graveyard is older than the church, and the Celtic crosses are of the 10th or 11th centuries.
Cleish is a rural hamlet off the B9097 between Crook of Devon and the M90 motorway, three miles south-west of Kinross in central Scotland. It lies in the historic county of Kinross-shire. At the last census (2011), the population of the civil parish was 685. [1] The village is mentioned in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Abbot. The majority of ...
From 1845 to 1930, parishes formed part of the local government system of Scotland: having parochial boards from 1845 to 1894, and parish councils from 1894 until 1930.. The parishes, which had their origins in the ecclesiastical parishes of the Church of Scotland, often overlapped county boundaries, largely because they reflected earlier territorial divisions.
Kinnoull Parish Church is a Church of Scotland church in the Kinnoull area of Perth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. A Kinnoull Church appears in documents when it was granted to Cambuskenneth Abbey in 1361. It was rebuilt in 1779 but demolished in 1826 after the completion of a church on the Perth side of the River Tay, [1] which flows a short ...
The County of Kinross or Kinross-shire is a historic county and registration county in eastern Scotland, administered as part of Perth and Kinross since 1975. [1] Surrounding its largest settlement and county town of Kinross , the county borders Perthshire to the north and Fife to the east, south and west.
Kinross (/ k ɪ n ˈ r ɒ s /, Scottish Gaelic: Ceann Rois) is a burgh in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, around 13 miles (21 kilometres) south of Perth and around 20 miles (32 kilometres) northwest of Edinburgh.
St John's Kirk is a church in the Scottish city of Perth, Perth and Kinross. Of Church of Scotland denomination, it is located in St John's Place, just southeast of the city centre. It stands on the former site of a church dating to 1126. Today's structure, built around 1448, is a Category A listed building. [1]