Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Moncreiffe House

Moncreiffe House, seat of the Moncreiffe family, Dunbarney par., Perthshire, at the S. base of Moncreitfe Hill, 1 mile NE. of Bridge of Earn and 3 miles SE. of Perth; Moncreiffe (or Moredun) Hill, 725 ft. high, occupies part of the peninsula between the rivers Tay and Earn, and commands a magnificent view; its W. shoulder is pierced by a railway tunnel 990 yards long.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "seat"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Dunbarney ScoP       Perthshire ScoCnty
Place: Moncreiffe

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