Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Balbeggie

Balbeggie, a village in a detached section of Kinnoul parish, Perthshire, 5½ miles NE of Perth. It has a post office under Perth, a United Presbyterian church, and a public school, which, with accommodation for 120 children, had (1879) an average attendance of 68, and a grant of £58,13s.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Kinnoull ScoP       Perthshire ScoCnty
Place: Balbeggie

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