Invergowrie

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Invergowrie
Scottish Gaelic Inbhir Ghobharaidh
View over Invergowrie
View over Invergowrie
Coordinates 56 ° 28 ′  N , 3 ° 4 ′  W Coordinates: 56 ° 28 ′  N , 3 ° 4 ′  W
Invergowrie (Scotland)
Invergowrie
Invergowrie
Residents 1790 (2011 census)
administration
Post town DUNDEE
ZIP code section DD2
prefix 01382
Part of the country Scotland
Council area Perth and Kinross
British Parliament Perth and North Perthshire
Scottish Parliament Perthshire North

Invergowrie ( Gaelic : Inbhir Ghobharaidh ) is a Scottish village in the Council Area Perth and Kinross . It is located in the traditional county of Perthshire just outside the city of Dundee on the Firth of Tay on Invergowrie Bay .

history

According to tradition, it is an early Christian site in Scotland, which Boniface founded in the 8th century. The ruins of St Peter's Church probably go back to this foundation . In the Middle Ages , the site was transferred to the Augustinian monks of Scone Abbey under Malcolm IV . Today's Invergowrie is one of the landing sites of the Scottish King Alexander I , who allegedly planned to build a palace there.

Invergowrie was historically on the border between Perthshire and Forfarshire , as evidenced by the Invergowrie Old Customs House . In the 20th century it was added to the administrative unit of Dundee and later separated again and incorporated into Perth and Kinross.

In the 1971 census survey, Invergowrie counted 1,389 people. In 2011 there were already 1790 inhabitants.

geography

The place name Invergowrie ("mouth of the Gowrie") describes the location at the mouth of the Gowrie Burns in the Firth of Tay, more precisely in the Invergowrie Bay. The A85 , which runs along the east flank of Invergowrie, marks the border with neighboring Dundee. The small coastal town of Kingoodie borders to the west .

traffic

By the tangential A85 (Dundee- Oban ) and the north passing from Edinburgh to Fraserburgh leading A90 Invergowrie is connected directly to the British national road network.

Invergowrie received its own station along the Caledonian Railway as early as the 19th century . In October 1979 the Invergowrie railway accident occurred near the village , in which five people were killed. The station is still in operation today.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information from the Scottish Parliament
  2. ↑ a b c d e Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  3. ↑ Entry on St Peter's Church  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  4. ↑ a b c Invergowrie in: FH Groome (Ed.): Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical , Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh, 1882–1885.
  5. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  6. ^ Information in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  7. ↑ (2011 census)
  8. ^ Report on the Invergowrie Railway Accident
  9. ^ Information from ScotRail

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