Arngask

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Arngask
Location within Perth and Kinross
Population931 (2011)
OS grid reference NO135093
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  • Arngask
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Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town PERTH
Postcode district PH2
Dialling code 01577
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56°17′01″N3°23′17″W / 56.28371°N 3.38808°W / 56.28371; -3.38808

Arngask is a civil parish in Perthshire, with the village of Glenfarg as its largest settlement. It lies in the south-east of the county, in the Ochil Hills and borders Fife and Kinross-shire. If forms part of a wider ecclesiastical parish of Abernethy and Dron and Arngask.

The parish includes five miles (8.0 km) of the upper reaches of the River Farg and has an area of 6,456 acres (10.1 sq mi; 26.1 km2). [1]

At the 2011 census, the population of the civil parish was 931. [2]

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References

  1. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A survey of Scottish Topography statistical biographical and historical, by Francis H. Groome; publ. Thomas C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1882 - 1885. (Article on Arngass, in Perthshire)
  2. Census of Scotland 2011, Table KS101SC Usually Resident Population, publ. by National Records of Scotland. Web site www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/ retrieved March 2024. See "Standard Outputs", Table KS101SC, Area type: Civil Parish