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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]
Kinross West, Church Of Scotland, (Kinross Parish Kirk) Station Road 56°12′20″N 3°25′25″W / 56.205429°N 3.423602°W / 56.205429; -3.423602 ( Kinross West, Church Of Scotland, (Kinross Parish Kirk) Station
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.
Perth & Clackmannan Shires. 1854. Civil Parish map. Perthshire was one of the largest counties, whereas Kinross-shire was one of the smallest; it was the least populous Scottish county in the 1921 census. [5] In 1930 the county councils for Perthshire and Kinross-shire were combined for most purposes.
Abernethy is a village and former burgh in the Perth and Kinross council area and historic county of Perthshire, in the east central Lowlands of Scotland.The village is situated in rural Strathearn, 8 miles (13 km) south-east of the city of Perth, near the River Earn's confluence with the River Tay and on the northern edge of the Ochil Hills.
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.
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]
Kinross was originally linked by railway to Perthshire, Fife and Clackmannanshire until the rail links gradually disappeared. At one time three independent railway companies had their termini at the town. The Fife and Kinross Railway came from the east, the Kinross-shire Railway came from the south and the Devon Valley Railway came from the west.