Kinnesswood

Human settlement in Scotland

Kinnesswood

Location within Perth and Kinross

Population540 (2020)^[1]OS grid referenceNO176028Council area

Perth and Kinross

Lieutenancy area

Perth and Kinross

CountryScotlandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townKINROSSPostcode districtKY13Dialling code01592PoliceScotlandFire Scottish AmbulanceScottish UK Parliament

Ochil and South Perthshire

Scottish Parliament

Ochil

List of places: UK; Scotland

56°12′38″N 3°19′48″W / 56.210623°N 3.330023°W / 56.210623; -3.330023

Kinnesswood (listen^ⓘ; Scots: Kinaskit,^[2] listen^ⓘ),^[3] possibly from the Scottish Gaelic: Ceann eas ciad ("head of the waterfall of the wood") is a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, and is in the historic county of Kinross-shire. It lies to the east of Loch Leven, on the A911 road, below Bishop Hill in the Lomond Hills. It is approximately 4 miles (6 kilometres) west of Glenrothes and 4 miles (6 kilometres) east of Kinross.^[4]

Notable residents

It was the birthplace in 1746 of the poet Michael Bruce who was born into a weaver's family and is remembered for his nature poetry in poems such as 'Ode To The Cuckoo' which Edmund Burke described as "the most beautiful lyric in our language".^[5] Bruce died from consumption at the early age of 21.

In 1829 meteorologist Alexander Buchan was born here.^[6]

References

^ "Mid-2020 Population Estimates for Settlements and Localities in Scotland". National Records of Scotland. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
^ Andy Eagle. "The Online Scots Dictionary". Scots Online.
^ Liddall, W.J.N. (1896). The place names of Fife and Kinross. William Green & Sons. p. 34.
^ Ordnance Survey, Great Britain (2007), "Perth & Alloa", Ordnance Survey Landranger Map (B2 ed.), ISBN 978-0-319-22997-2
^ Michael Bruce of Kinross-shire (Poet of Loch Leven; Poet of Lomond Braes; The Shepherd Poet) Alternative Perthshire[1]
^ C D Waterston; A Macmillan Shearer (July 2006). Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 1 (A–J) (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 090219884X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2015.