Glamis
Glamis is a small village in Angus, Scotland, located 5 miles south of Kirriemuir and 5 miles southwest of Forfar. It is the location of Glamis Castle, the childhood home of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.Photo: Dan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Glamis Manse Stone and Hunter’s Hill Stone.
Glamis Manse Stone
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Glamis Manse Stone, also known as Glamis 2, is a Class II Pictish stone at the village of Glamis, Angus, Scotland. Dating from the 9th century, it is located in the garden of the Manse, close to the parish church and is visible only from 20m.
Hunter’s Hill Stone
Archaeological site
Photo: Dan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Hunter's Hill Stone, otherwise known as the Glamis 1 Stone, is a Class II Pictish standing stone at Hunter's Hill to the south east of Glamis village, Angus, Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Charleston and Milton of Ogilvie.
Charleston
Village
Photo: Liz ‘n’ Jim, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Charleston is a village in Angus, Scotland, near Glamis. The village of Charleston came into being in the 1830s. In 1833, the proprietor of the lands of Rochelhill granted a long tack of land to Alexander Bruce, a hand loom weaver in Glamis, and this land was subsequently, in 1838, feued at a rate of £8 per acre.
Milton of Ogilvie
Village
Milton is a hamlet in Angus, Scotland situated near Glamis. Considerable early history is in the general area including Glamis Castle and the Eassie Stone, a carved Pictish stone dating prior to the Early Middle Ages. Milton of Ogilvie is situated 2 miles south of Glamis.
Douglastown
Village
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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a flax mill to spin yarn for heavy linen cloth called osnaburgs (named from the German town of Osnabrück, where it was originally made. Douglastown is situated 2 miles east of Glamis.
Glamis
- Type: Village with 233 residents
- Description: village in Angus, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Angus, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.60832° or 56° 36′ 30″ northLongitude
-3.00343° or 3° 0′ 12″ westPopulation
233Elevation
285 feet (87 metres)Open location code
9C8RJX5W+8JOpenStreetMap ID
node 1300032580OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2648608Wikidata ID
Q1026782
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Glamis” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Glamis”
- Bulgarian: “Гламис”
- Catalan: “Glamis”
- Cebuano: “Glamis”
- Chinese: “格拉姆斯”
- Chinese: “格拉米思”
- Chinese: “格拉米斯”
- Dutch: “Glamis”
- French: “Glamis”
- Galician: “Glamis”
- German: “Glamis”
- Irish: “Glamais”
- Italian: “Glamis”
- Japanese: “グラームズ”
- Persian: “گلامس”
- Russian: “Гламис”
- Scots: “Glaums”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Glamais”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Glamis”
- Spanish: “Glamis”
- Swedish: “Glamis”
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