Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Ladder Burn

Ladder Burn, a streamlet of Lochlee parish, N Forfarshire, rising on the SE slope of Mount Keen at an altitude of 2390 feet, and hurrying - 23/8 miles south-by-eastward, till, after a total descent of 1420 feet, it falls into the Water of Mark at a point 2½ miles NW of Lochlee church. Its right bank is flanked by a 'steep but winding path, called the Ladder, very grand and wild,' down which the Queen rode 20 Sept. 1861.—Ord. Sur., sh. 65, 1870.


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

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Feature Description: "a streamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "streams")
Administrative units: Lochlee ScoP       Angus ScoCnty

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