Blairingone
Blairingone
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Blairingone is located in Perth and Kinross Blairingone Blairingone Location within Perth and Kinross | |
| OS grid reference | NS984968 |
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| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | DOLLAR |
| Postcode district | FK14 |
| Dialling code | 01577 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
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| 56°09′11′′N 3°38′14′′W / 56.153023°N 3.637136°W / 56.153023; -3.637136 | |
Blairingone is a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It lies on the A977 road at its intersection with Vicar's Bridge Road near the extreme south-westerly point of the region, approximately 3 miles (5 kilometres) southeast of Dollar.[1] The Arndean agricultural estate[2] lies about 1 mile (1.5 kilometres) northeast, near the River Devon.
Schools
[edit ]Blairingone Primary School was located in Blairingone.[3]
History
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Blairingone is located in the parish of Fossoway [4] and is part of the former county of Kinross-shire.[5]
It is the last village in the county of Perth and Kinross. Blairingone in Gaelic may be blàr an gobha or blàr an con, field or muir of the smith or dogs.[6] .
Materials such as limestone, alum, iron-ore, whinstone and sulphur, as well as coal were mined here. The Fossoway area and over into Fife contained the most ancient coal mining operations in Scotland. During the 1700s a waggonway complex included a track from Blairingone for carrying coal which also connected the North Fife coal fields and the limeburners at Limekilns on the Forth of Forth.
The monks from Culross Abbey obtained their coal from this area and visiting nuns were accommodated at the still occupied "Ladieshall" on the Vicars Bridge road out of the village. Livestock drovers from the north and south passed through Blairingone on their way to the upper Forth ferry[clarification needed ] and were often known to take refreshment at one of the three inns in the village, only one of which is left and was called the 'Devonvale Inn', in recent years renamed The Mart Inn.
See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ "Perth & Alloa", Ordnance Survey Landranger Map (B2 ed.), 2007, ISBN 0-319-22997-1
- ^ Arndean Estate
- ^ Blairingone Primary School
- ^ Parish of Fossoway, Gazetteer for Scotland
- ^ County of Kinross-shire, Gazetteer for Scotland
- ^ Taylor, Simon (2017). The Place-Names of Kinroos-Shire. Donington: Shaun Tyas. p. 215. ISBN 978-1-907730-58-0.
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