Towns & cities · Scottish Highlands
Douglastown
Douglastown — village in Angus, Scotland, UK.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 3 h–6 h
- Free entry
- Family-friendly
- Dog-friendly
About
Douglastown is a town, city, village or settlement in the United Kingdom. Address: DD8. Wikidata describes it as: "village in Angus, Scotland, UK". Coordinates: 56.6139°, -2.9515°.
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From the Wikipedia article
Douglastown is a hamlet in Kinnettles in Angus, Scotland, three miles south-west of Forfar. It takes its name from the landowner who in about 1789 provided land for James Ivory & Co. (in which Mr Douglas was a partner) to build a flax mill to spin yarn for heavy linen cloth called osnaburgs (named from the German town of Osnabrück, where it was originally made. The hamlet of Douglastown was built to house the workers. The mill closed in 1834. It used flax-spinning technology invented by John Kendrew and Thomas Porthouse of Darlington, patented in 1787.
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- Coordinates
- 56.6139, -2.9515
- District
- Angus
- Postcode
- DD8
- Parliamentary constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens
Sources
- wikidata: Q203953 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Douglastown (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Douglastown near Forfar.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Douglastown?
- Douglastown is in the Scottish Highlands, United Kingdom (postcode DD8).
- Is Douglastown free to visit?
- Yes, Douglastown is free to enter.
- How do I get to Douglastown?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode DD8. It sits within the Angus and Perthshire Glens parliamentary constituency.