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MEIGLE,
glaut'*
NOBILITY, GENTRY AND
CLERGY.
arty Rev. Patrick, Ruthven
burton Rev. John, .Meigle House
Hay Miss Catherine, Ballendoch
Kinloch George, Esq. Kinloch
Lindsay Rev, D. Essie
Lyell the Misses, Dnunkilho House
M'Pherson Rev. Alexander, Meigle
Nicoll Rev. John, Meigle
Ogilvy Peter Weatheibuni, Esq.,
Ruthven
Popham Arlmiral Brunswick, Car-
dean House
Wharncliffe the Right Honourable
Lord, Belmont Castle
SCHOOLS'
Parochial School— John Ander-
son, master
Parochial School (girls')
Isabella Elder, mistress
ARCHITECT
Carver John, Kinloch, Meigle
BAKER. . ■
Cree James, Meigle : *:^
BANK.
Roval Bank of Scotland (branch)
Meigle — (draws on the Bank of
England, & Contts 8f Co. London
—David Murray, agent
BLEACHER & DYER
Fitchie Henry S. Deanfkld, Meigle
BOOT AND SHOE MAKERS.
M'Robie Alexander, Meigle
Mustard Robert, Meigle
BRICK AND TliE MAKERS
CopelandP. & A. (dealers), Meigle
Newton & Meikle, Drumkilbo
Tile Works
CIVIL ENGINEER
Halkett D ivid H. Balendoch
COAL MERCHANTS
Copeland P. 8c A. Meigle
Hill David, Meigle
FARMERS
Baxter Alexander, Chapelton
Cushney Jame> & Allan, Longlogie
Kiskine David Low, Drumkilbo
Fenton Miss — . Balmyle
Kidd David, Balmachreon
Linn William, Mains gL
Patullo David, Fullarton '"**
Pennycock James, Artibog
Porter William, Meigle
Rattray Boswel! C. East Canir.o
Stephen John, Meigle
Wedderbuin Robert, Mains of
Canmo
Willis William, Netherbogie
FIRE &c. OFFICE AGENTS.
Lancashire, David Murray, Meigle
Northern, (fire), David Gellatly,
Meigle
Scottish Provident (life), David
Gellatly, Meigle
FLESHER.
Stephen William (& cattle dealer),
Meigle
GROCERS.
Bruce Catherine, Meigle
Gellatly William 2f David (and
drapers and clothiers), Meigle
Guild Alexadder (aud stationer),
Meigle
INNS.
Belmont Hotel, Janet Clark, Rail-
way station
Straihmore Inn, Dugald Colquhoun
Meigle
JOINERS Ac CARTWRIGHTS.
Smart James, Meigle
Storrie Charles Meigle
MERCHANTSi-GENERAL
Copeiaivi P. & A. (and agents for
Charles Tennant & C<>. manufac-
turing chemists Glasgow) ,Mt\g\e
Gellatly William & David, Meigle
MILLWRIGHT
Cameron John, Ciathies, Meigle
SADDLER AND HARNESS
MAKER
Dick Rubert, Meigle
TAILORS.
Coutts John, Meigle
Douglas Stewart (8c clothier), Meiglt
Robertson Charles, Meigle
VETERINARY SURGEONS
Tait John & Son, Meigle
Miscellaneous.
Anderson Jobn, session clerk, inspec.
tor of poor, and collector of poor rates,
and registrar of births, deaths and
marriages, Meiele
Brown Thomas, miller, Meigle
Crichton Alexander, slater, Meigle
day Andrew, blacksmith, Meigle
Established Church, Meigle— Rev
John Nicoll
Free Church, Meigle— Rev. Alexander
M'Pherson [Burton
Episcopal Chuech, Meigle — Rev. John
Omnibus,
To ALYTH, twice every day
Conveyance by Railway,
ON THE SCOTTISH MIDLAND LINE.
Station, about one mile from Meigle
John Sturrock, station master
METHVEN,
GLENALMOND, MONEDIE, REDGORTON, TIBBERMUIR, TRINITY GASK, AND ABERDALGIE
IVIeTHVEN is a very neat village and parish— the
former six miles west from Perth ; situated on the high
road to Crieff, from which it is distant eleven miles.
It possesses a branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland, a
subscription library, containing neaily 2,000 volumes,
and a body of freemasons; there is likewise an agricul-
tural society, who holds two meetings annually, which
are very respectably attended. The Perth, Almond
out England and Scotland. Among the most munificent
benefactors were the Duke of Buccleuch, the late Sir
John Gladstone, Bart., the Right Hon. W. E. Glad-
stone, and the Right Rev. Charles Wordsworth, the
first warden of the college. The chapel, a building in
the decorated style of Gothic architecture, 136 feet
long by 52 feet wide, with a heiehtof 70 feet, was
erected at a cost of more than £8,000., at the sole ex-
Valley, and Meihven Railway affords communication pense of the Right Rev. C. Wordsworth. The council
with the principal parts of the kingdom. The ancient consists of eighteen members £ namely, the seven
church of Methven was collegiate, being founded 1433,
for a provost and seven prebendaries, by Walter Stuart,
Earl of Athol, one of the youngest sons of Robert II.
About a mile from the village is Methven Castle (the
residence of William Smythe, Esq.), distinguished in
Scottish history as the place where King Robeit was
defeated by the English army under the Earl of Pem-
broke, in i306. In the parish is also Balgowan, the
residence of William Thomson, Esq. But, perhaps,
the most interesting object in the parish is the grave
of the celebrated ' Bessy Bell and Mary Gray,' whose
beauty and seclusion from the world are the subject of
an admired Scottish melody. Fairs are held on the
first Thursday in May and fourth Thursday in October.
Trinity College, Glenalmond, on the hanks of the
Almond.is ten miles fiomPerth.and four miles from the
Penh, Almond, and Methven Railway; was projected
in the year 1841, and opened in the year 1847. It was
meant to assume the double purpose of promoting a
proper collegiate training for the divinity students of
the Scottish Episcopal church ; and of establishing in
Scotland a large public school, after the general model
of the older English endowments. Both departments
have now been ip full operation for several years. The
site on which the college stands was presented by
George Pat ton, Esq., of the Cairnies. The funds for
the buildings, which have already cost upwards of
£50,ono, were raised b.v a general subscription through-
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Scotch bishops, with three Presbyters, and the
following eight laymen : — the Duke of Buccleuch, the
Earl of Home, the Right Hon. W. E. Glads'one, M. p.,
Sir A. Edmonstone, Bart., Sir P. M. Threiplanri, Bart.,
Sir M. R. Shaw Stewart, Bart. M. p., W. Smyihe, Esq.
of Methven, and W. P. Dundas, Esq. The resident
society consists of a warden, a sub-warden, a tutor in
theology, and four other masters, who are assisted by
visiting masters for special purposes.
The parish of Monedie is a small district, compre-
hending a square of about two miles, bounded by the
parish of Auchtergaven on the north, and by that of
Redgorion on the east and south. There are, properly
speaking, no hill* in the parish but only rising grounds
which run northward and southward from the banks
of the Shockie. Until lately Monedie was annexed to
the parish of L"gie Almond.
Redgorton parish is about six miles in length by
two in breadth, extending along theTav and Almond;
besides which livers there is the Shtickie stream, and
several other rivulets, each propelling considerable
machinery in the district through which the waters
pass. It is bounded on the north by Auchteigaven
and Kinclaven, on the east by Scone, on the south and
south-west by Tibbermuir and Methven, and on the
west by Monedie.
Tibbermuir (or Tippermuir), is a parish of about-
the same extent as Redgorton ,and is a'maiiu factoring
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