Balmerino
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| Coordinates | 56 ° 25 ′ N , 3 ° 3 ′ W | ||
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| Post town | NEWPORT-ON-TAY | ||
| ZIP code section | DD6 | ||
| prefix | 01382 | ||
| Part of the country | Scotland | ||
| Council area | Fife | ||
| British Parliament | North East Fife | ||
| Scottish Parliament | North East Fife | ||
Balmerino is a town in the Scottish Council Area Fife . It is located about six kilometers southwest of Dundee and 16 kilometers northwest of St Andrews on the south bank of the Firth of Tay .
history
The history of Balmerino is closely linked to the Cistercian monastery of Balmerino Abbey , which was founded in 1229 . Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, 11th Earl of Dundee, handed the monastery , which had been destroyed during the Scottish Reformation , into the hands of the National Trust for Scotland in 1936 , which has looked after it ever since.
In the late 18th century, Balmerino still had a port, which the city of Dundee operated as a secondary port on the opposite bank of the Firth of Tay. A hundred years later this was already out of order and the residents were fishing. The village has been protected as a Conservation Area since 1987 . In Balmerino there is a Spanish chestnut tree, one of the oldest in the country.
While in 1831 there were still 1055 inhabitants in Balmerino, the number of inhabitants fell to 664 within 50 years. In 1991 there were still 120 people living in the village, ten years later there were only 45.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
- ↑ Balmerino in: FH Groome (ed.): Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical , Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh, 1882–1885.
- ^ Information in the Gazetteer for Scotland
