Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Balshando	place	Bartholomew
Balshando	a small lake	Groome
Dichty or Dighty Water	a stream	Groome

Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Lundie like this:

Lundie, a village and a parish of SW Forfarshire. The village stands 3 miles WSW of Auchterhouse station, 6 ESE of Coupar-Angus, and 9 NW by W of Dundee, under which it has a post office. The parish is bounded N by Newtyle, E by Auchterhouse, S by Fowlis-Easter in Perthshire, and W by Kettins. Its utmost length, from W by N to E by S, is 4 miles; its utmost breadth is 3 miles; and its area is 4296 ¼ acres, of which 107⁵/6 are water. Of seven lakes, wh...

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ich send off head-streams of Dichty Water, much the largest is Long Loch (5¾ x 2 furl.; 722 feet) in the N, Lundie Loch having been reduced by drainage about the year 1810 to less than a twelfth of its former size. A range of the Sidlaw Hills extends along part of the N and all the W of the parish, whose surface, nowhere sinking much below 500 feet above sea-level, attains 1063 feet near Smithston and 1088 at Keillor Hill on the Kettins boundary. The range divides the head of Strathdighty from the neighbouring part of Strathmore, and gives to all the interior of the parish a sheltered and sequestered aspect. The predominant rocks are trap and common grey sandstone; and the soil is for the most part light, sharp loam. Since 1850 great improvements have been effected in the way of reclaiming, draining, fencing, and building. The Duncans of Lundie, now Earis of Camperdown, have held nearly all the property from 1678 and earlier; and Lundie churchyard is still their burying-place. This parish, since 1618, has formed one charge with the contiguous parish of FowlisEaster in Perthshire. It is in the presbytery of Dundee and the synod of Angus and Mearns; the living is worth £238. A building of considerable antiquity, Lundie church was well repaired about the year 1847, and contains 300 sittings. A public school, with accommodation for 108 children, had (1882) an average attendance of 57, and a grant of £43, 6s. Valuation (1857) £3005, (1884) £4311, 19s. Pop. (1831) 456, (1861) 442, (1871) 400, (1881) 317; of united parish (1801) 693, (1831) 778, (1871) 691, (1881) 628.—Ord. Sur., sh. 48, 1868.

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

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Travel writing

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Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Pitcur	0	2
Newtyle	0	2
Fowlis Easter	0	1
Auchterhouse	0	2
Kettins	0	2
Liff	0	2
Abernyte	0	2
Benvie	0	2
Baledgarno	0	2
Longforgan	0	2
Campmuir	0	2
Coupar Angus	0	2
Meigle	0	1
Camperdown	0	2
Inchture	0	2
Mylnefield Feus	0	2
Invergowrie	0	2
Kirkton of Strathmartine	0	1
Kingoodie	0	2
Burrelton	0	2