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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.
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]
Cleish Parish School 1835 Cleish Parish Church A typical house in Cleish with Cleish Cemetery beyond Houses in Cleish with the Cleish Hills behind. 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.
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.
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. It is the traditional county town of the historic county of Kinross-shire.
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.
Cairn to Maggie Wall, Dunning. Dunning is a small village in Perth and Kinross in Scotland with a population of about 1,000. The village centres around the 12th–13th century former parish church of St. Serf, where the Dupplin Cross is displayed (Historic Scotland; open in summer without entrance charge).
Parishes in Kinross-shire, Scotland. Pages in category "Parishes in Kinross-shire" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ...