Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Kinloss

Kinloss, coast par. and vil. with ry. sta., NW. Elginshire--par., 5184 ac., pop. 1072; the vil. is near the SE. corner of Findhorn Bay, 3 miles NE. of Forres; Kinloss has remains of an abbey founded by David I. in 1150, or 1151, and destroyed in 1650 to provide materials for the erection of Cromwell's citadel at Inverness.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "coastal parish and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Kinloss ScoP       Moray ScoCnty
Place: Kinloss

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