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Gartmore, a village and a quoad sacra parish in Port of Monteith parish, SW Perthshire. The village stands on the peninsula between the river Forth and Kelty Water, 4½ miles NW of Bucklyvie, and 1 mile from Gartmore station on the Strathendrick and Aberfoyle railway (1882). It has a post office under Stirling, and a free library, the gift of Mr John M'Donald, a Glasgow merchant. Gartmore House, ½ mile NE of the village, is a commodious mansion, a seat of William Cunninghame Graham-Bontine, Esq. of Ardoch and Gartmore (b. 1825; suc. 1863), who owns 2009 acres in Perthshire, 6931 in Stirlingshire, and 1940 in Dumbartonshire, valued respectively at £1499, £4134, and £2662 per annum. The parish, constituted in July 1869, is in the presbytery of Dunblane and synod of Perth and Stirling; its minister's stipend is £120, with a manse. The church, built as a chapel of ease in 1790 at a cost of £400, underwent great improvements in 1872, and contains 415 sittings. There is also a Free church; and Gartmore public and Dalmary sessional school, with respective accommodation for 135 and 54 children, had (1881) an average attendance of 83 and 42, and grants of £78, 10s. 6d., and £43, 0s. 2d. Pop. of q. s. parish (1871) 353, (1881) 718, of whom 343 were in Drymen parish, Stirlingshire.—Ord. Sur., sh. 38, 1871.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a quoad sacra parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Perthshire ScoCnty |
| Place: | Gartmore |
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