Gertrude Plantation

Gertrude Plantation is a forest in Angus, North East Scotland, Scotland. Gertrude Plantation is situated nearby to the village Cortachy, as well as near the hamlet East Kinwhirrie.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cortachy Castle and Inverquharity Castle.

Cortachy Castle

Castle

Photo: Kasteelbeer, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Cortachy Castle is a castellated mansion House at Cortachy, Angus, Scotland, some four miles north of Kirriemuir.

Inverquharity Castle

Castle

Photo: Tom Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Inverquharity Castle is a 15th-century tower house in Angus, Scotland. It lies around 4.5 kilometres north-east of Kirriemuir near the River South Esk.

Mile Hill is located in Angus, Scotland, 1000 metres west of Dykehead. It is a circular hill between Glen Clova and Glen Prosen. It has an elevation of 321 m and a prominence of 60 m and is classed as a Tump.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kirriemuir and Cortachy.

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.

Cortachy

Village

Photo: Ian Cleland, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cortachy is a village in Angus, Scotland. It lies in at the mouth of Glen Clova, on the River South Esk, four miles north of Kirriemuir. Nearby lies Cortachy Castle, seat of the Earls of Airlie.

Memus

Village

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Memus is a small village in Angus, Scotland, north of Kirriemuir. It is home to the Drovers Pub. A story is told of a kelpie at Shielhill Bridge, leaving its cloven hoofprint behind on a stone as a petrosomatoglyph.

Gertrude Plantation

Type: Forest
Location: Angus, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

56.7196° or 56° 43′ 10″ north

Longitude

-2.9954° or 2° 59′ 44″ west

Open location code

9C8VP293+RR

OpenStreetMap ID

way 920790353

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=forest

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