Inverpeffer
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Inverpeffer was a hamlet
Hamlet (place)
A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...

 that once existed in Angus
Angus
Angus is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area. The council area borders Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross and Dundee City...

, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 until around 1941, when it was demolished during the building of East Haven airfield.

It was on a return journey from Inverpeffer to Barry
Barry, Angus
Barry is a small village in Angus, Scotland at the mouth of the River Tay. The recent completion of a bypass for the village on the A930 road from Dundee to Carnoustie is something that was originally planned before the Second World War. There is a water mill operated by the National Trust for...

 in 1797 that loomwright Thomas Lowson
Thomas Lowson
Thomas Lowson is traditionally held to be the founder of the town of Carnoustie, Angus.-Biography:In the late 18th century Charles Gardyne, Freeholder of Ravensby, marked out a road between the villages of Barry and West Haven, using a four horse plough, passing along its way the Point Inn,...

 fell asleep in grassland belonging to Major William Phillips. Lowson, enamoured of the area, approached Phillips, securing a feu of land, and built the first house in the village that was to become Carnoustie
Carnoustie
Carnoustie is a town and former police burgh in the council area of Angus, Scotland. It is situated at the mouth of the Barry Burn on the North Sea coast...

.

Today, a single building from the former hamlet remains.
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