Kinnettles is located in Angus

Angus

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, a Council Area

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 in the northeast of Scotland

Scotland

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. The Parish is bounded on the north and east by Forfar

Forfar

Forfar is a parish, town and former royal burgh of approximately 13,500 people in Angus, located in the East Central Lowlands of Scotland. Forfar is the county town of Angus, which was officially known as Forfarshire from the 18th century until 1929, when the ancient name was reinstated, and...

, on the southeast and south by Inverarity and the southwest and northwest by Glamis

Glamis

Glamis is a small village in Angus, Scotland, located four miles south of Kirriemuir and five miles southwest of Forfar. It is the location of Glamis Castle, the childhood home of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.-History:...

. The centre of the Parish is dominated by the oblong Brigton Hill (164m) whose steepest slopes descend to the Kerbet Water. The Kerbet valley is well wooded and contains two small hamlets, Kirkton and Douglastown

Douglastown

Douglastown is a hamlet in Kinnettles in Angus, Scotland, three miles south-west of Forfar. It takes its name from the landowner who in about 1789 provided land for James Ivory & Co. to build a flax mill to spin yarn for heavy linen cloth called osnabruks Douglastown is a hamlet in Kinnettles in...

. The only other sizeable group of dwellings is at Ingliston on the flatter area to the northwest of the A94 Forfar to Glamis road. The northern boundary is the "Great Drain", now known as the Dean Water. Strathmore Estates constructed this, from Forfar Loch to the Kerbet, in the 18th century and thus helped to drain this previously boggy area. In addition it provided a transportation route for marl

Marl

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 from the Loch to the Estate.

There are three local estates: Brigton, Invereighty, and Kinnettles House. The latest iteration of the mansion at Kinnetles House, built in 1864 by merchant James Paterson

James Paterson

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, has served as home for such people MP

Member of Parliament

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 Sir Harry Hope and Wing Commander

Wing Commander (rank)

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 Dudley Lloyd-Evans

Dudley Lloyd-Evans

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External links

• Kinnettles and District Heritage Group