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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
KINNELL [parish] Kinnell Ph. [Parish]
Kinnell Ph. [Parish]
Kinnell Ph. [Parish]
Kinnell Ph. [Parish]
Kinnell Ph. [Parish]
Kinnell Ph. [Parish]
Kinnell Ph. [Parish]
Kinnell Ph. [Parish]
Kinnell Ph. [Parish]
Kinnell Ph. [Parish]
New & Old Statl. [Statistical] Accounts
Fullarton's Gazetteer
Co. [County] Map
Valuation Roll
Estate Maps
Revd. [Reverend] Mr Walker
Mr. Bell Registrar & Ph. [Parish] Schoolmaster
Mr. Lyall, Factor
Mr Cunningham Factor
Sheriff's Returns of Meresmen
033; 034; 040 A small Parish in Forfarshire bounded on the North by Farnell, on the South by Inverkeillor, on the East by Craig & Lunan, and on the West by Guthrie &c. The Parish is traversed by the Scottish North Eastern Railway which has one Station at the Glesterlaw, chiefly a Goods Station. The Brechin & Arbroath T.P. [Turn Pike] Road passes from North to south on the west side of the Parish, and the Road to Montrose from Forfar passes from the north west of Kinnell to the most northerly point by Whanland. Parts of the great Moors Montreathmont and Rossie Moor are in this Ph. [Parish]. The former is planted with trees and is a most extensive wood at the present time; the latter is
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Co [County] Forfar -- Kinnell Parish

[Note]
"The word "Kinnell", if, as is most probable, it
signifies, "Bankhead" in the Gaelic language,
is descriptive of the situation of the Church;
for the hillock on which the church stands is
about 40 ft [feet] higher than the adjacent haugh, and
slopes more or less abruptly on three sides,
down to the level of the River Lunan and its
subsidiary streamlet the Whauk Burn"
New Stat [Statistical] Account

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Alison James- Moderator, Caspell

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