Balmuckety

Balmuckety is a farm in Angus, North East Scotland, Scotland. Balmuckety is situated near Walled Garden, as well as near the town Kirriemuir.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Kirriemuir Gateway to the Glens Museum and Tayside Police Museum.

Kirriemuir Gateway to the Glens Museum

Museum

Photo: G Laird, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Kirriemuir Gateway to the Glens Museum is situated 1 mile northwest of Balmuckety.

Tayside Police Museum

Museum

Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Tayside Police Museum is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Balmuckety.

Webster's High School is a secondary school in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland. The school has run for over 150 years, and there are over 650 pupils in the school. Webster’s High School is situated 1 mile northwest of Balmuckety.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kirriemuir and Douglastown.

Kirriemuir

Town

Photo: Nick, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Kirriemuir, sometimes called Kirrie or the Wee Red Toon, is a historic market town and burgh in Angus, Scotland. It is approximately 50 miles north of Edinburgh, 73 miles northeast of Glasgow, and 14 miles north of Dundee.

Douglastown

Village

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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a flax mill to spin yarn for heavy linen cloth called osnaburgs (named from the German town of Osnabrück, where it was originally made.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 3½ miles south of Balmuckety.

Forfar

Photo: LeCardinal, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Forfar is the county town of Angus, 13 miles north of Dundee, with a population in 2022 of 15,700. Its main attractions are Glamis Castle, and the fine Pictish stones here and at Meigle and Aberlemno.

Balmuckety

Type: Farm
Category: agriculture
Location: Angus, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

56.66409° or 56° 39′ 51″ north

Longitude

-2.97989° or 2° 58′ 48″ west

Open location code

9C8VM27C+J2

OpenStreetMap ID

way 548040853

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=farmyard

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Walled Garden and The Herbalist’s Garden.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: Balmuckety and Checkiefield Cottages.

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