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Claverhouse, a hamlet and a bleachfield in Mains parish, Forfarshire. The village stands on Dighty Water, 3½ miles N by E of Dundee, under which it has a post office. The bleachfield adjoins the hamlet, and is a very extensive establishment for the boiling and bleaching of yarn and linen cloth. Claverhouse mansion, which stood a little to the N, was the family seat of John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee (164389), the ` Bloody Claver'se' of the Covenanters, the ` Bonnie Dundee ' of Jacobites; its site is now occupied by a modern monumental structure, in the form of a ruin.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a hamlet and a bleachfield" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Angus County |
| Place: | Claverhouse |
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