Kilmadock

Kilmadock

Kilmadock parish, containing Doune, Deanston, Buchany, Drumvaich, and Delvorich villages, is situated on the southern border of Perthshire in Scotland. Its length is 10 miles (16 km), its breadth from 2 - 8 miles (3.25 - 13 km) and with an area of convert|24521|acre|km2|0.

The River Forth runs along its southern boundary and the River Teith runs east-south-eastward through the centre. A flat tract of considerable breadth lies along the Forth, a valley, flanked on each side by a hill-ridge, is traversed by the Teith and an upland tract, part of the Braes of Doune, ascends to the lofty summit of Uaighmore on the northern boundary.


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