Saints in Scottish Place-Names

St Mary's, Mains & Strathmartine

Grid reference

NO 376 340 (accurate position)

Six-figure easting & northing

337600 734000

Latitude

56.49405217777496

Longitude

-3.013601942765831

County

Angus

Nearby places

Nine Maidens Well, Mains & Strathmartine (0.48 miles)

St Martin's Church, Mains & Strathmartine (0.76 miles)

Strathmartine, former parish, Mains & Strathmartine (0.76 miles)

Maryfield, Mains & Strathmartine (0.95 miles)

Magdalen's Kirkton, Mains & Strathmartine (1.37 miles)

Object Classification

Settlement

Is linear feature?

No

Notes

On 1865 OS map this place is shown as a single dwelling, probably a farmhouse. Today it is a large modern housing estate, and OS Digimap 1:10,000 shows a mass of hagiotoponyms in the street-names of the estate. In addition to St Mary's as the name of the estate, we have: St Mary's Road St Columba Gardens St Bowswells Terrace St Albans Terrace St Clement Place St Clement Terrace St Dennis Terrace St Dennis Place St Nicholas Place St Mungo Terrace St Kilda Road St Kilda Gardens St Ninian Terrace St Ninian Place St Monance Place St Fillans Road St Fillans Terrace St Fillans Place St Giles Terrace St Giles Place St Leonard Road St Leonard Place St Andrew's Primary School.

Relationships with other parishes

Within Mains & Strathmartine, modern parish

Names

1 head-name linked to this place ?

St Mary's

St Mary's 1865, OS 6 inch first edn.

Saints in this place-name

Mary, Mary the Blessed Virgin, Our Lady (ns) (certain)

Mary the Blessed Virgin (certain)