Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Crook of Devon

Crook of Devon, a small old village in the Kinrossshire section of Fossoway parish, on the left bank of the Devon, at its sharp westward bend or crook, with a station on the Devon Valley section of the North British, 1½ mile ENE of Rumbling-Bridge, and 6 miles WSW of Kinross. It is a burgh of barony.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a small old village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Fossoway ScoP       Kinross Shire ScoCnty
Place: Crook of Devon

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