Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Invergowrie

Invergowrie, vil. with ry. sta., on border of Longforgan par., Perthshire, and of Liff, Benvie, and Invergowrie par., Forfarshire, on Firth of Tay, 3 miles W. of Dundee; was anciently a place of royal embarkation; its ruined church is said to have succeeded a church of the early part of the 8th century, founded by St Boniface; 1½ mile NE. of sta. is Invergowrie House.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Longforgan ScoP       Perthshire ScoCnty
Place: Invergowrie

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