Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Dichty or Dighty Water

Dichty or Dighty Water, a stream of S Forfarshire. Rising in four head-streams, among the Sidlaw Hills, in the W of Lundie parish, it runs 15 miles east-south-eastward through Auchterhouse, Mains and Strathmartine, Dundee, and Monifieth parishes; receives, within Dundee parish, the tribute of Fithie Water; and falls into the Firth of Tay 1¾ mile ENE of Broughty Ferry. It drives several mills in the middle and lower parts of its course, and is well stocked with trout.—Ord. Sur., shs. 48,49,1868-65.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a stream"   (ADL Feature Type: "streams")
Administrative units: Lundie ScoP       Angus ScoCnty
Place names: DICHTY     |     DICHTY OR DIGHTY WATER     |     DIGHTY WATER

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