Luncarty
Coordinates: 56°27′06″N 3°28′11″W / 56.451644°N 3.469857°W
| Luncarty | |
 Luncarty
Luncarty shown within Perth and Kinross |
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| OS grid reference | NO095298 |
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| Council area | Perth and Kinross |
| Lieutenancy area | Perth and Kinross |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | PERTH |
| Postcode district | PH1 |
| Dialling code | 01738 |
| Police | Tayside |
| Fire | Tayside |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| EU Parliament | Scotland |
| Scottish Parliament | North Tayside |
| North East Scotland | |
| List of places: UK • Scotland • | |
Luncarty (pronounced (Lung-cur-tay) [ˈlʌŋkəɾte] is a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, approximately four miles north of Perth. It lies between the A9 to the west, and the River Tay to the east.
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[edit] History
The historian Hector Boece (1465–1536), in his History of the Scottish People, records that, in 990, Kenneth III of Scotland defeated the Danes near Luncarty.[1] However, the Scottish historian John Hill Burton strongly suspected the battle of Luncarty to be an invention of Hector Boece.[2][3] The present village was founded in 1752 by William Sandeman, to house workers at his bleachfields.[4] The village formerly had a railway station, and the Perth to Inverness railway line still runs through the village.
[edit] Bleachfields
William Sandeman and his partner Hector Turnbull manufactured linen in Perth and bleached it in Luncarty, for instance with an order of 12,000 to 15,000 yards of "Soldiers' shirting". In 1752 he leveled 12 acres (49,000 m2) of land in Luncarty to form bleachfields. By 1790 when William died, the Luncarty bleachfields covered 80 acres (320,000 m2) and processed 500,000 yards of cloth annually. Second only to agriculture, linen manufacture was a major Scottish industry in the late 18th century — linen then became less important with the introduction of cotton.[5]
[edit] Sport
Luncarty is home to the junior football club Luncarty F.C.
[edit] Notable persons
- Christopher Bowes, musician
- George Turnbull, civil engineer
- Jimmy Guthrie, professional footballer
[edit] References
- ^ Groome, Francis H. (1882-1885). "Luncarty". Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical. Gazetteer for Scotland. http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townhistory1270.html. Retrieved 2008-07-09.
- ^ The History of Scotland from Agricola's Invasion to the Revolution of 1688, By John Hill Burton; p.364-365, Will. Blackwood and Sons, 1867
- ^ A Complete Guide to Heraldry; p.415; By Arthur Charles Fox Davies, and Graham Johnston; Published by Kessinger Publishing, 2004; ISBN 1417906308, 9781417906307; link
- ^ "Luncarty". Gazetteer for Scotland. http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst1270.html. Retrieved 2008-07-09.
- ^ Perth Entrepreneurs: the Sandemans of Springfield by Charles D Waterston, 2008, pages 27–33: these pages reference 19 other information sources. ISBN 978-0-905452-52-4
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