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In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Claverhouse like this:
Claverhouse, a hamlet and a bleachfield in Mains parish, Forfarshire. The village stands on Dighty Water, 3½ miles N by E of Dundee, under which it has a post office. The bleachfield adjoins the hamlet, and is a very extensive establishment for the boiling and bleaching of yarn and linen cloth. Claverhouse mansion, which stood a little to the N, was the family seat of John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee (164389), the ` Bloody Claver'se' of the Covenanters, the ` Bonnie Dundee ' of Jacobites; its site is now occupied by a modern monumental structure, in the form of a ruin.
Claverhouse is now part of DUNDEE CITY City. Click here for graphs and data of how DUNDEE CITY has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Claverhouse itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Claverhouse, in Dundee City and Angus | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21966
Date accessed: 11th February 2026
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