In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Kinloch Rannoch like this:
Kinloch-Rannoch, a village in Fortingall (quoad civilia) parish, NW Perthshire, on both banks of the Dubhag or Tummel, which here, 300 yards below its efflux from Loch Rannoch, is spanned by a bridge of four arches. It is 21 miles W by N of Pitlochry, 13 WSW of Struan station, 27 E by N of Kingshouse Inn, and 18 NW of Aberfeldy. ...
A picturesque and thriving little place, it has a neat new post office (Rannoch), with money order, savings' bank, and telegraph departments, 2 commodious hotels, a quoad sacra parish church (1829; 560 sittings), a Free church (1855; 200 sittings), an Episcopal church, All Saints (1864; 120 sittings), 6 shops, and a fair on the last Tuesday of October. In the centre of the village a Peterhead granite obelisk, 21 feet high, was erected in 1875 to the memory of the Gaelic sacred poet and evangelist, Dugald Buchanan (1716-68), who for the last sixteen years of his life was schoolmaster at Kinloch-Rannoch, where his house was demolished so late as 1881. Constituted by ecclesiastical authority in 1829, by civil authority in 1845, the quoad sacra parish of Kinloch-Rannoch is in the presbytery of Weem and synod of Perth and Stirling; its minister's stipend is £120, with a manse and glebe together worth £22, 10s. per annum. Auchtarsin public, Kinloch-Rannoch public, and Killichonan private state-aided schools, with respective accommodation for 29, 70, and 31 children, had (1881) an average attendance of 19, 40, and 24, and grants of £32, 1s. 6d., £42, 15s., and £25, 0s. 5d. Pop. of q. s. parish (1871) 921, (1881) 894, of whom 791 were in Fortingall and 103 in Logierait (detached).—Ord. Sur., sh. 55, 1869.
Kinloch Rannoch through time
Kinloch Rannoch is now part of Perth and Kinross district. Click here for graphs and data of how Perth and Kinross has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Kinloch Rannoch itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Kinloch Rannoch, in Perth and Kinross and Perthshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
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Date accessed: 17th April 2024
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