Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Lethnot, former parish, Lethnot & Navar
Grid reference
NO 540 682 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
354000 768200
Latitude
56.80319413306561
Longitude
-2.753338160322487
County
Angus
Nearby places
St Mary's Church, Lethnot, Lethnot & Navar STOP (0 miles)
St Mary's Well, Lethnot & Naver (0.14 miles)
Navar, former parish, Lethnot & Navar (0.81 miles)
Our Lady's Hermitage, Menmuir (1.84 miles)
Kilgarie, settlement Menmuir (2.02 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (non-extant in 1975)
Notes
NGR for the site of former Lethnot Church. Celtic Cross fragment and medieval coffin found near the modern church (built 1827) on the site of the old kirk. The cross fragment is inscribed in Hiberno-Saxon script, FILII MEDICII.
Relationships with other parishes
Within Lethnott & Navar
Contains Lochlee, modern parish (formerly)
Relationships with other places
Contains Bride's Bed, Lochlee
Contains Church of St Drostan, Lochlee
Contains Droustie's Meadow, Lochlee
Contains Droustie's Well, Lochlee
Contains St Mary's Church, Lethnot, Lethnot & Navar STOP
Contains St Mary's Well, Lethnot & Naver
Contains Tillyoran, settlement Lochlee
Parish details
Lethnot part of Lethnot and Navar LEN
Parish TLA
LNX
Medieval diocese
Brechin
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Lethnot
This is not a hagiotoponym.Head name
Lethnot
Place
Lethnot, former parish, Lethnot & Navar
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Obsolete
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Is this the original referent of the place?
Maybe
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No