Descriptive gazetteer entries

We have no further entries in our collection of 19th century descriptive gazetteers about Meigle, but we do have this information about localities within the associated parish or parishes. You may be able to find further references to Meigle in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Belmont	a mansion	Groome
Drumkilbo	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Longleys	village	Bartholomew
Longleys	a village	Groome

Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Meigle like this:

Meigle, par., quoad sacra par., and vil. with ry. sta., E. Perthshire, on border of co.- par., 3980 ac., pop. 696; quoad sacra par. (including the Kinloch portion of Coupar-Angus par.), pop. 966; vil., near river Isla, 1¼ mile NW. of Alyth Junction and 5½ miles NE. of Coupar-Angus; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks; in the churchyard is a remarkable group of sculptured stones; Meigle was once a seat of considerable trade; Meigle House is the property of the Kinlochs of Kinloch.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Meigle by doing a full-text search here.

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Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Newtyle	0	2
Ruthven	0	2
Eassie and Nevay	0	3
Alyth	0	2
Airlie	0	2
Kettins	0	2
Lundie	0	1
Coupar Angus	0	2
Pitcur	0	2
Auchterhouse	0	2
Campmuir	0	2
Rattray	0	2
Lintrathen	0	2
Glamis	3	2
Bendochy	0	2
Keithick	0	2
Blairgowrie	0	2
Burrelton	0	2
Kingoldrum	0	2
Fowlis Easter	0	1