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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
MAINS AND STRATHMARTINE Mains
Mains and Strathmartine
Mains Ph. [Parish]
Strathmartine Ph. [Parish]
Mains of Fintry
Mains & Strathmartine
Mains and Strathmartin
Mains and Strathmartin
Mains and Strathmartin
Mains and Strathmartine
Mains and Strathmartine
Mains & Strathmartin
Mains & Strathmartine
Mains & Strathmartine
Mains & Strathmartine
Sheriff's List of meresmen
New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account]
Johnston's Co. [County] map

Old Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account]
Fullarton's Gazetteer
Oliver & Boyd's Almanack
Revd. [Reverend] Mr. McGillvray Free Church
Mr Longlands - Schoolmaster Free Church
Revd. [Reverend] Mr. McMatrice Ph. [Parish] Minister
Mr Morris - Ph. [Parish] Schoolmaster
Valn [Valuation] Roll 1856-7
Valn [Valuation] Roll 1856-7
Sir John Ogilvie. Bart. [Baronet]
Mr. Simpson Ph. [Parish] Schoolr. [Schoolmaster] Strathmartine
049; 050; 053; 054 [Situation] In the South end of Forfarshire.
Two parishes lying near the southern extremity of Forfarshire and united in 1799. The united parish is bounded on the north by Tealing, on the east by Murroes and Dundee, on the south by Dundee and Liff and on the west by Liff and Auchterhouse. Its extreme length from the points on the west and the east where it is first and last touched by Dighty Water is 5¾ miles its extreme breadth in a line due north & south falling upon Hilton is about 3¼ miles The whole surface of the united parish is a beautiful strath rising gently on both sides from a line along the centre to waving heights of less than 400 feet above sea level. The soil has some alluvial or haugh ground and elsewhere is in general a deep fertile black loam superincumbent on gravel clay or rock. The Strath is traversed from end to end right along the middle by Dighty Water and long took from it the name of Strathdighty. The united parish is in the presbytery of Dundee and synod of Angus and Mearns. Patrons The Crown and Mr. Laird of Strathmartine

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Parish of Mains and Strathmartine

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