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Title: Clackmannan and Kinross
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Day, John Percival, 1880-
Subjects: Clackmannanshire (Scotland) Kinross-shire (Scotland)
Publisher: Cambridge (Eng.) : University Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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sh are told by Sir David Lyndsay. (p. 128.) Crook of Devon, a village situated where the Devonclianges the direction of its course from south-east to south-west.Formerly a burgh of barony and a place of some note for itscattle fairs, it now derives a slight importance from its mills, andits position as a convenient stopping place for visitors to thepicturesque river defile, (pp. 25, 29, 128.) Kinnesswood, a village at the western foot of the BishopHill. Like the other villages (e.g. Easter and Wester Balgedie)of Portmoak parish, it has probably grown from a fishing settle-ment ; but, with the lowering of the level of the loch, it is nowsome distance from the actual shore. Till the emigration of theBirrell family it had been long famous for the manufacture ofvellum and parchment. Portmoak was the birthplace of JohnDouglas, first tulchan Archbishop of St Andrews, (pp. 119,135.) Kinross (2618), created a burgh of barony by the RegentMorton, and now the only police burgh in the county, is
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Rumbling Bridge CHIEF TOWNS AND VILLAGES 141 tlie county town. It is also the official hcad<iuarters ot theScottish Amateur Skatiiif^ Association and tlie National AnglingAssociation, (pp. S4, 96, 97, iio, 112, 113, 132, 134.) Milnathort (1178), in Orwell parish, a market town, oneand a halt miles north of Kinross, (pp. 84, 96, 109, 112, 133.) Rumbling Bridge is a famous centre for visitors to thegorges and falls of the Devon river, here spanned by two bridges—the older dating from 1713, the modern not yet a century old.The defile at this spot is about 120 feet deep. Above the bridgesis the Devils Mill, below are the falls of the Caldron Linn. Scotlandwell, an ancient village in Portmoak parish atthe southern foot of the Bishop Hill. The name was taken fromthe Pontes Scotiae, fa.mous springs, one of which, nowprotected by a wooden structure, rises just to the west of themain street. In 1238 William Malvoisin, Bishop of St Andrews,founded a hospital for the Mathiunn or Red Friars,

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