Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Sheriffmuir

Sheriffmuir, battlefield, in par., and 2 miles E. of Dunblane, Perthshire; an indecisive battle was fought here in 1715 between the forces of the Pretender under the Earl of Mar and the royalists under the Duke of Argyll.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "battlefield"   (ADL Feature Type: "historical sites")
Administrative units: Perthshire ScoCnty
Place: Sheriffmuir

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