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| Kirkden (Continued) | [continued from page 1] East and having an average breadth from North to South of ¼ mile contains 421.178 acres - making a total area for the whole Parish of 5017.477. acres. The surface of the main body of the Parish lies at about 300 feet above Sea level but is not in itself hilly except at the west end where it has more of an undulating than upland aspect. Most of the Area is what is termed a beachy soil and for the most part cultivated and well drained - the entire district being sheltered by an interspersion of wood. Lunan and Vinny waters are the principal streams in the Ph. (Parish) which receive during their course one or two tributary rills. No minerals are wrought, manufactures in connextion with Dundee and in course linen engage the largest part of the population. A Turnpike Road runs from South to North towards Arbroath, and three lines of Railway, Arbroath and Forfar Railway, Scottish North-Eastern Railway and a branch therefrom to Friockheim now disused, - along with the Turnpike - also traverse the N. En. [North Eastern] district. Friockheim in the north-eastern district a village consisting of several Streets and forming a Quoad Sacra Parish is the most important place within this parish containing as it does a Quoad Sacra, Congregational and Free Churches, Subscription Schools, Corn and Lint Mills &c. and having a population of about 900. There are a Parish Church and School situate near the Central district. Population at the last census 1763, principally employed in Weaving. A Standing Stone situate in North-Western district - a short distance west of Guthrie Junction Railway Station - is thus noticed by the Gazetteer of Scotland "On a plain between the Vinny and Lunan stands an obelisk with nearly effaced sculpturing of horses and other objects, supposed to have been erected upon the defeat of Danes by Malcolm II". Whether merely commemorative or the actual site of the contest is not sufficiently clear. Two mounds evidently of artificial construction termed "Laws" generally supposed to have been originally used as places of Convention and laterly for executions and recognised as Motes or Moats exist respectively in Wn. [Western] & En. [Eastern] districts. What now remainsof a Tumulus wherein Kistvaens were found has been shewn in the En. [Eastern] district. "The Castle of Gardyne" - remarks the Gazetteer of Scotland - "built in 1568. with a capacious modern addition occupies a romantic situation on the brink of a precipice overlooking the richly wooded Course of the "limpid and purling tributary of the Vinny, half a mile above their confluence". The Parish was anciently divided into two Baronies called Idvies and Gardyne - the foundations of the Baronial Chapel of the former having been removed within the recollection of parties in the district, - the Site of this Structure has been accordingly shewn. Septr. [September] 1859. |
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[Page] 2Parish of Kirkden -- County of Forfar
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