Birkhill
Birkhill and neighbouring Muirhead are two small villages in Angus, just to the west of Dundee, Scotland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 1,950 residents
- Description: village in Angus, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Birkhill, Angus”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Camperdown House and Backmuir Wood.
Camperdown House
Historic building
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Camperdown House is a historic building.
Backmuir Wood
Forest
Backmuir Wood is a 140.58 acres woodland in the Scottish county of Angus, about 4 kilometres northwest of Dundee. It is located south of the A923, between the villages of Muirhead and Liff.
Dundee Ice Arena
Ice rink
Photo: Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dundee Ice Arena, a multifaceted ice rink facility, is situated in the Camperdown locality of Dundee, Scotland. Boasting a seating capacity of 2,400, it ranks as the fourth largest ice rink in Scotland, surpassed only by Braehead Arena, Murrayfield Ice Rink, and Fife Ice Arena. Dundee Ice Arena is situated 1½ miles southeast of Birkhill.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Liff and St Marys.
Liff
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Liff is a town in Angus, Scotland, situated 4+1⁄2 miles west-northwest of Dundee on a south-facing slope two miles north of the River Tay. It had a population of 568 in 2011.
St Marys
Suburb
St Mary's is in a residential area of Dundee located in the extreme northwest of the city, to the north of Ardler and west of Kirkton. It is also bounded on the west by Downfield Golf Club, to the northwest by Clatto Country Park and to the north by Craigowl View. St Marys is situated 1½ miles east of Birkhill.
Ardler
Suburb
Photo: Val Vannet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ardler is an area in the north-west of Dundee, Scotland, built on land previously owned by Downfield Golf Club. The housing scheme was completed in the late 1960s and originally included six 17-storey multi-storey blocks that formed the northern part of the scheme. Ardler is situated 1½ miles east of Birkhill.
Birkhill
- Category: locality
- Location: Angus, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.4963° or 56° 29′ 47″ northLongitude
-3.05678° or 3° 3′ 24″ westPopulation
1,950Elevation
499 feet (152 metres)Open location code
9C8RFWWV+G7OpenStreetMap ID
node 1404343385OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
12263584Wikidata ID
Q4916475
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Birkhill” goes by many names.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Birkhill”. Photo: James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.