Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Clifton

Clifton, a village in Killin parish, Perthshire, ½ mile N of Tyndrum station. Lead mines, belonging to the Marquis of Breadalbane on the top of a hill ¾ mile WSW, employed over 100 men in 1839, but are now discontinued.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Killin Parish       Perthshire County

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