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Kettins, a village and a parish on the SW border of Forfarshire. The village stands 1 3/8 mile ESE of Coupar-Angus, under which it has a post office. It consists of neatly kept cottages and gardens, with a central green.
The parish, containing also the hamlets of Ley of Hallyburton and Campmuir, is bounded NE by Newtyle, E by Lundie, and on all other sides by Perthshire, viz., SE by Longforgan, SW by Collace, and W and NW by Scone (detached), Cargill, and Coupar-Angus. Its utmost length, from NNE to SSW, is 5½ miles; its breadth varies between 1 ½ and 4 1/8 miles; and its area is 7815¾ acres, of which 26 are water and 335 2/3 belong to the detached or Bandirran section. The western division of the parish, forming part of Strathmore, declines to 170 feet above sea-level; and thence the surface rises south-eastward to the watershed of the Sidlaw Hills, attaining 1088 feet at Keillor Hill and 1141 at Gaskhill Wood. The upland district slopes gently to the plain, and is partly heathy, partly wooded, and partly pastoral; the lowland district, larger than the upland one, is nearly level, highly cultivated, and finely embellished. Trap rocks prevail in the hills, Old Red sandstone in the plain; and the latter has been quarried in several places, and makes a good building-stone. The soil on the higher grounds is light and thin; on the low grounds, is chiefly a silicious loam or a friable black mould, and highly fertile. About three-fourths of the entire area are in tillage, and woods and plantations cover some 1500 acres. 'Picts' Houses ' or subterranean caves have been discovered on the estates of Lintrose and Pitcur - at the latter in 1878; Pitcur Castle, a ruin, 1 ¾ mile SE of the village, was the ancient scat of the Haliburtons; a fortalice, called Dores Castle, and said by tradition to have been a residence of Macbeth, crowned a hill to the S of Pitcur; six pre-Reformation chapels stood at Peattie, South Corston, Pitcur, Muiryfaulds, Denhead, and the S side of Kettins village; and other antiquities are noticed under Campmuir and Baldowrie. Mansions, noticed separately, are Hallyburton, Lintrose, Baldowrie, and Bandirran; and the proprietors are R. S. Menzies, Esq., the Earl of Wharncliffe, and four others. Including quoad sacra the detached section of Scone, Kettins is in the presbytery of Meigle and synod of Angus and Mearns; the living is worth £306. The parish church, at the village, was built in 1768, and, as restored and enlarged in 1871, contains 500 sittings. The public school, with accommodation for 171 children, had (1882) an average attendance of 139, and a grant of £127, 11s. 6d. Valuation (1857) £9638, (1883) £12, 206, 15s. 11d., plus £734 for railway. Pop. of the civil parish (1801) 1207, (1831) 1193, (1861) 901, (1871) 775, (1881) 848; of the ecclesiastical parish (1881) 903.—Ord. Sur., sh. 48,1868.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Kettins ScoP Angus ScoCnty |
| Place: | Kettins |
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