Haggis Highway: I'll be Dammed Traditional Cache
Highland Haggi: Another one bites the dust.
Haggis Highway: I'll be Dammed
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The Haggis Highway has reached rural Angus. This section takes in the area from Tealing to Murton passing through several wee villages and hamlets, lots of farmlands, twisty roads and up and down wee hills. There are views all round: the snow capped (depending on time of year) mountains of the Angus glens to the distant north, Craigowl and the Sidlaws immediately north and west, the river Tay and the North Sea to the south and east, with Fife beyond.
Tealing nestles at the foot of the Sidlaw Hills. It is just 6 miles (9.7 km) north of the city of Dundee and 8 miles (13 km) south of Forfar. With a population of just over 500, scattered across 15 square miles (39 km2) of fertile farming land, it has several large working farms mixed in with lots of comfortable family homes that form part of the Dundee and Angus commuter belt.
Tealing's peaceful and idyllic setting belies its colourful past. Its history includes prehistoric settlement, ancient carvings, Picts, religious rebellion, World War intrigue, agricultural upheaval and community survival.
There is evidence of an early Pictish settlement around 100 AD near a soutterain now known as Tealing Earthhouse. The first church in Tealing was built in 710 AD by St Boniface, the papal missionary who founded around 150 churches in the north east of Scotland. In 1728, the Reverend John Glas of Tealing Parish Church was suspended and formed a breakaway church known as the Glassites, creating one of the biggest upheavals in the Scottish church.
Whilst in Tealing, the Doo'cot and Earth house are worth a visit, and you may have worked out that the final of a multi is here too, as is Team Ballacraine's "Lest We Forget - Tealing".
We came across this wee dam with coots swimming about in it, but couldn't find out anything else about it, so if anyone knows the history, please let us know so we can share it too.
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OBG (jbex vg bhg - vg'f boivbhf)
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