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Lunan, a coast parish of E Forfarshire, with a station, Lunan Bay, on the Arbroath and Montrose section (1879-83) of the North British, 5 miles SSW of Montrose, and 8½ NNE of Arbroath. It is bounded N by Craig and Maryton (detached), E by the German Ocean, SE and SW by Inverkeilor, and W by Kinnell. Its utmost length, from ENE to WSW, is 2 5/8 miles; its breadth varies between 3½ furlongs and 23/8 miles; and its area is 1981½ acres, of which 632/3 are foreshore, 3½ water, and 4 tidal water. The coast, extending ¾ mile along Lunan Bay, is a low sandy beach, strewn here and there with small boulders, and flanked by bent-covered knolls, beyond which the surface rises somewhat rapidly till at Cothill it attains an altitude of 319 feet above sea-level, and thence commands an extensive prospect of country, seaboard, and sea. Lunan Water winds 2 5/8 miles north-eastward along the Inverkeilor boundary; and Buckie Den Burn, traversing a romantic dell, and forming a number of pretty waterfalls, traces the northern border. Trap and sandstone are the prevailing rocks; and the former has been quarried for building. The soil is sandy for a short way inland, deep and rich on the lower declivities, and frequently shallow on the higher grounds. Threefourths of the entire area are in tillage; less than 20 acres are under wood; and the rest is either pastoral or waste. The chief antiquities are vestiges or sites of structures connected with Red Castle. Walter Mill (1476-1558), burned at St Andrews, the last of Scotland's Reformation martyrs, was priest of Lunan for forty years; and Alexander Peddie, its Episcopalian minister, was suffered, after the re-establishment of Presbyterianism, to retain his charge till his death in 1713. Lunan House is the seat of William Thomas Taylor Blair-Imrie, Esq. (b. 1833; suc. 1849), who holds 297 acres in the shire, valued at £747 per annum. The Earl of Northesk is chief proprietor, and Arbikie belongs to a third. Lunan is in the presbytery of Arbroath and the synod of Angus and Mearns; the living is worth £223. The church, rebuilt in 1844, contains 130 sittings; and a public school, with accommodation for 83 children, had (1882) an average attendance of 80, and a grant of £75, 11s. Valuation (1857) £2513, (1884) £3034, 3s., plus £1202 for railway. Pop. (1801) 318, (1831) 298, (1861) 259, (1871) 248, (1881) 243.—Ord. Sur., sh. 57, 1868.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a coast parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Lunan ScoP Angus ScoCnty |
| Place: | Lunan |
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