Douglastown

For other places with the same name, see Douglastown (disambiguation).

Coordinates: 56°36′50″N 2°57′05″W / 56.613928°N 2.951488°W / 56.613928; -2.951488

Douglastown
Douglastown  Douglastown shown within Angus
OS grid reference	NO417473
Council area	Angus
Lieutenancy area	Angus
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	FORFAR
Postcode district	DD8
Dialling code	01307
Police	Tayside
Fire	Tayside
Ambulance	Scottish
EU Parliament	Scotland
UK Parliament	Angus
Scottish Parliament	North Tayside
List of places: UK • Scotland •

Douglastown is a hamlet in Kinnettles in Angus, Scotland, three miles south-west of Forfar.^[1] It takes its name from the landowner who in about 1789 provided land for James Ivory & Co. (in which Mr Douglas was a partner) to build a flax mill to spin yarn for heavy linen cloth called osnabruks (named from the German town of Osnabruk, where it was originally made. The hamlet of Douglastown was built to house the workers. The mill closed in 1834. It used flax-spinning technology invented by John Kendrew and Thomas Porthouse of Darlington, patented in 1787.

Douglastown

References

1. ^ "Dundee and Montrose, Forfar and Arbroath", Ordnance Survey Landranger Map, 2007, ISBN 0319229807 

Further reading

A. J. Wardey, The linen trade: ancient and modern (1864; repr. 1967), 458 511 689-91.