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Longforgan
Sign in to saveLongforgan is a town and parish in the Carse of Gowrie, in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It lies west of Dundee on the main A90 road.
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- Locality
- Longforgan
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1,210
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1180
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
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- Longforgan
- historic county
- Perthshire
- OS grid reference
- NO312300
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Longforgan is a town and parish in the Carse of Gowrie, in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It lies west of Dundee on the main A90 road.
==History== thumb|Castle Huntly A record survives of Sir Patrick Gray, as Baron of Longforgan, holding a baronial court here in 1385 on the Longforgan or Hund Hill; a moot hill. The officials present were the same as those of the sovereign's courts. The village was created a burgh of barony in 1672. Castle Huntly, established in the 14th century and developed in the 17th and 18th centuries, is located south-west of the village. It is now an open prison. A woodland, Huntly Woods, is situated away from the village. There is evidence that a Roman Camp was built in Huntly woods.
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