Saints in Scottish Place-Names
Funded by a Leverhulme Trust Project Grant
Liff & Benvie, parish
Grid reference
NO 333 328 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
333300 732800
Latitude
56.48268254645353
Longitude
-3.083128645362615
Nearby places
Liff, former parish, Liff & Benvie (0 miles)
Fowlis Easter, parish (0.78 miles)
St Marnock's Church, Fowlis Easter (0.78 miles)
Benvie, former parish (Liff & Benvie) (0.9 miles)
Ladyfield, Liff & Benvie (1.82 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NGR is for Liff and Benvie Parish Church, in Liff.
Relationships with other parishes
Contains Benvie, former parish (Liff & Benvie)
Contains Invergowrie, former parish, Liff & Benvie
Contains Liff, former parish, Liff & Benvie
Relationships with other places
Contains Ladyfield, Liff & Benvie
Contains St Clement's Chapel, Liff & Benvie
Contains St Margaret's Church, Liff & Benvie
Contains St Mary's RC Church, Liff & Benvie
Parish details
Liff LIX and Benvie BVX
Parish TLA
LIB
County
Angus
Parish notes
Liff, Benvie & Invergowrie: this parish was partly in ANG partly in PER. In 1891 it was placed entirely in ANG. PER bit very small: Easter Mylnefield (part); Invergowrie Station (part). Shennan 1892, 190.
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Liff & Benvie
Head name
Liff & Benvie
Place
Liff & Benvie, parish
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
Is this a current OS form? ?
No