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Douglastown is a hamlet in Kinnettles in Angus, Scotland, three miles south-west of Forfar.[1] 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a flax mill to spin yarn for heavy linen cloth called osnabruks (named from the German town of Osnabruk, where it was originally made.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.

Douglastown
Douglastown
For other places with the same name, see Douglastown.

Douglastown
Douglastown
Location within Angus
OS grid referenceNO417473
Council area
Lieutenancy area
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townFORFAR
Postcode districtDD8
Dialling code01307
PoliceScotland
FireScottish
AmbulanceScottish
UK Parliament
  • Angus
Scottish Parliament
  • North Tayside
List of places
UK
Scotland
56.613928°N 2.951488°W / 56.613928; -2.951488

References


  1. "Dundee and Montrose, Forfar and Arbroath", Ordnance Survey Landranger Map (B2 ed.), 2007, ISBN 0-319-22980-7

Further reading


A. J. Wardey, The linen trade: ancient and modern (1864; repr. 1967), 458 511 689–91.


На других языках

[de] Douglastown (Angus)

Douglastown ist eine Ortschaft in der schottischen Council Area Angus und der traditionellen schottischen Grafschaft Forfarshire. Sie ist etwa 36 km nordöstlich von Perth und etwa 16 km nördlich von Dundee am Fuße der Sidlaw Hills gelegen. Die nächstgelegene Stadt ist das vier Kilometer in nordöstlicher Richtung gelegene Forfar. Entlang des westlichen Ortsrands verläuft der Bach Kerbet Water, der zwei Kilometer nördlich in das Dean Water mündet.[1]
- [en] Douglastown


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