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List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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POLICE STATION [Methven] | Constabulary Station Police Station Police Station |
Sign board on Ho. [House] Mr. Smythe Mr. Clark Act of Parliament Captain Gordon, Chief of the County Police |
097 | A two storey dwelling house slated and in excellent repair. There is a room in it for the accommodation of prisoners |
THE BELL TREE | The Bell Tree | Mr. Smythe Mr. Clark Mr. Wright Revd [Reverend] Mr. Wilson Methven |
097 | The following description of this tree is taken from "The Topographical Statistical and Historical Gazetteer of Scotland," Vol. [Volume] 2 page 354: - "The Bell-Tree, an ash in the Churchyard, supposed to be co-eval with the earliest religious establishment in the parish, and measuring 20 feet in girth 3½ feet from the ground." At one time the church bell was hung on this tree - from which circumstance it derives its name. |
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[Page] 52Perthshire -- Ph. [Parish] of Methven.
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