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| Guthrie (Continued) | [continued from page 1] Common and still bearing the name of Montreathmont Moor has been recently nearly all reclaimed and planted. Guthrie Hill, an elevation of 500 feet above Sea level in the Wn. [Western] district is the highest point in this division of Parish - the entire district therefrom sloping gently to the East and South. The North Eastern Railway runs through the En. [Eastern] District North to Aberdeen from which a line diverges to Friockheim - now disused. The Ph. [Parish] is well provided with means of Communication the district & is touched near its En. [Eastern] extremity by a Turnpike Road. There are several unimportant streams of which Lunan Water which traces the Southern boundary is the largest. No coal or other mineral is worked in the district. Guthrie a hamlet in which the Ph. [Parish] Church and Manse are situate is the largest in this division and contains about 12 families. Population of Parish about 500. Guthrie Castle situated in the South-Western district and supposed to have been built in the 16th. Century by Sir Alexander Guthrie who was slain at the battle of Flodden is a massive building with walls about sixty feet high and 10 feet thick and is still entire. It is however partly modernized and is still occupied as the Mansion of the Guthrie family of that ilk. The remains of a Church of the 16th. or 17th. Century are still visible in close proximity to the Parish and which form part of the walls enclosing the private burial place of the Guthrie family. Carlisle Augt [August] 1859 |
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[Page] 2Parish of Guthrie -- County of Forfar.
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